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Related: About this forumThomas Frank: Author of "Listen Liberal," speaking NOW in KC
Democrats have occupied the White House for 15 of the past 23 years, and Thomas Frank pointedly asks: What do they have to show for it? Wall Street gets bailouts. Free-trade deals keep coming. The decline of the middle class has only accelerated. Why has so little been done to advance traditional liberal goals to expand opportunity, fight for social justice, and ensure that workers get a fair deal?
The best-selling, Kansas City-born author takes up the issue, employing his trademark sardonic wit and lacerating logic in a discussion of his new book Listen, Liberal: Or What Ever Happened to the Party of the People?
Democrats have occupied the White House for 15 of the past 23 years, and Thomas Frank pointedly asks: What do they have to show for it? Wall Street gets bailouts. Free-trade deals keep coming. The decline of the middle class has only accelerated. Why has so little been done to advance traditional liberal goals to expand opportunity, fight for social justice, and ensure that workers get a fair deal?
The best-selling, Kansas City-born author takes up the issue, employing his trademark sardonic wit and lacerating logic in a discussion of his new book Listen, Liberal: Or What Ever Happened to the Party of the People?
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Thomas Frank: Author of "Listen Liberal," speaking NOW in KC (Original Post)
LongTomH
Mar 2016
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House of Roberts
(5,186 posts)1. Thanks for posting this.
Nicole Sandler is reading his book so she can have Mr. Frank on her show, and I'm much better informed about the content of the book now. If I could sit still long enough to read it, I'd buy it myself.
appalachiablue
(41,174 posts)2. Thank you for catching this outstanding event. Way to go Thomas and
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the exceptionally engaged audience. The era of dominance by the professional, so-called 'creative' investor class is waning. People have had enough and it's manifesting in many ways. So, 'get a clue Liberal' or not. The political revolution will continue to grow with or without you. Take your credentials, complexity, trade agreements, globalization and shove it. Feel the Bern!
- Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) on the Banks and Congress, "They basically own the place", 2009.