Our Damaged Democracy: We the People Must Act Audiobook (Free)

“A Washington insider pulls on years of experience to deliver a blistering critique from the condition of American government” (Kirkus Testimonials) in an authoritative scrutiny of the forces that work our society and a call to fix our democracy before it’s too late.

If you’ve been watching the news headlines and worrying that our democracy no more works, this book, “a cri de coeur from one of our wisest Us citizens” (Michael Beschloss, Presidential Historian), can help you understand why you’re correct. There is about Our Broken Democracy: We the People Must Act colossal focus of power in the Presidency. Congress is crippled by partisanship and hostage to special interest cash. The Supreme Courtroom and several lower federal government courts are riven by politics. Add politically fractured and fragile media, feckless campaign finance laws and regulations, rampant income and education inequality, and multicultural divisions, and it’s no question our leaders can’t acknowledge anything or muster a good majority of Americans behind them.

With decades at the top in federal government, regulation, and business, Joseph A. Califano, Jr. has the capacity to become party-neutral in his evaluation and the perspective to start to see the big picture of our democracy. Using disclosing anecdotes featuring every modern leader and actions of both celebrations, he makes the immediate case that while we do not need to acknowledge all areas of politics, we do have to trust each other and be worth that trust. He shows how, as engaged citizens, we are able to bring back systems of federal government that promote fairness and protect our freedom. “It’s hard to argue with [Califano’s] analysis” (The New York Times Publication Review) which the longer we wait around to fix these problems, the more dangerous our situation can be.