Bob Zimmerman
The American Challenge - "Democracy is Not a Spectator Sport
Fri Mar 5 18:05:23 2004
64.140.158.32


Twenty-One Winning Strategies for the 21st Century

ISBN 0932555047, 303 pages with index & bibliography.

"Democracy is Not a Spectator Sport"

The American Challenge is banned at the Bush White House; some say
it helped kick-off the anti-Bush revolution that is now sweeping the
nation.

Part I delivers a blistering indictment of the Bush neocons. Part II,
fully 2/3, presents a bold progressive vision for 21st century
America, the nuts and bolts of a transformative domestic and foreign
policy that will help repair our eviscerated democracy while
delivering peace and prosperity for all.


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Rave Reviews

Dr. Johan Galtung, famed international professor of peace studies and
founder of the Transcend international peace network says, The
American Challenge is one-of-a-kind, fantastic. This book contains
the concrete ideas and proposals America needs to transform her into
a truly nurturing and peaceable nation. Absolutely the best book I
have ever read on the topic.

The Midwest Book Review says, The American Challenge is highly
recommended for political science reading lists and community library
collections. It is a quite thoughtful and thought-provoking read,
packed with progressive political proposals and a rebuttal of the
gross militarism of Bush neocons. The progressive agenda includes a
new system of taxation to replace federal income tax; a plan for
universal access to medical care that lowers costs; ideas for
improving the injustices within the electoral, judicial, and
corporate systems; and a great deal more.

Author Bob Zimmerman implores Americans to deny Bush a second term by
remembering that democracy is not a spectator sport. He makes a
strong case that America and the world are too fragile to withstand
another four years of Bush tax cuts for the rich, and the sort of
shoot from the hip braggadocio that could result in World War III.
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Summary of The American Challenge

For lovers of peace, humanitarians, working people, retirees, and environmentalists nothing is more important for the future of the world than assuring the early retirement of Bush and Cheney. Working together, we can mobilize the electorate to end the reign of neo-con plutocrats. The future is ours to create by:

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Restoring the rights of working people and assuring economic prosperity.
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Guarantying access to necessary health care and prescription drugs.
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Transforming budget deficits into budget surpluses.
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Doubling Social Security to provide retirement with dignity while eliminating the Social Security tax.
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Replacing income and Social Security taxes with a consumption tax.
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Making general disarmament with real national security a national priority.
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Encouraging investment in small business, education, and research.
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Restoring civil liberties and reducing domestic levels of violence.
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Implementing new strategies for winning the wars on tobacco and drugs.
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Achieving economic, social, and environmental justice for all.
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Ending the export of our jobs and our dependence on foreign oil.
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Taking the big money out of politics with election and political reform.
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Regulating economic globalization by reforming giant corporations and government, and ending corporate welfare.
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Eradicating state and corporate genocides.
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Enabling a humanitarian foreign policy for the 21st century.

These are but a sampling of the Twenty-One Winning Strategies for the 21st Century proposed in The American Challenge that will restore the “American Dream’ and end the “Bush Nightmare.”

The essential question is which vision for America will prevail. Will the Bush vision of America run as a giant corporation and war machine serving as the world’s police force for the benefit of the few at the peril of the many prevail? Or will Americans demand a return to the form of democracy envisioned by presidents Lincoln, Roosevelt, and Eisenhower—a peaceful America, a caring America, an America striving to bring liberty and economic security to everyone.

Under the guise of fighting terrorism and drugs, President Bush, the consummate compassionate conservative, declared:

“You’re either with us or against us.”

Such infantile naked aggression is the singular theme of the Bush administration as they:

* Wage war on working people and retirees.
* Wage war on the environment and our civil rights.
* Threaten war with all who disagree with their whim of the moment.

They run America as if it were a giant corporation, above all nations, controlled by the Business Roundtable, with ever-diminishing liberty, freedom, and economic security for all but the corporate elite. In three short years, which have seemed an eternity, the Bush plutocrats have destroyed many of our most important strategic partnerships and subjected us to world ridicule.

Now, only we, the American electorate, working, marching, and voting in harmony, can send Bush and his band of armchair warriors packing. Yes, President Bush, we, the American people, are against you.

In his courageous work of remarkable scope and original thought, political scientist, economist, and strategic planner Bob Zimmerman explores the web of complicity and deceit that is dragging America away from the visions of her revolutionary founders. Zimmerman stands atop the mighty shoulders of Tom Paine and Ben Franklin, who, were alive today, would probably thank him, and the many others in America and around the world, striving to keep democracy’s flame burning and demanding peace instead of war.

In The American Challenge, author, Bob Zimmerman, delivers the political ideas and solutions thoughtful Americans are desperately seeking, the ideas that will send President Bush and his fellow plutocrats packing.

Zimmerman implores working Americans to awaken from their long electoral slumbers to deny President Bush a second term. He makes a strong case that America and the world are too fragile to withstand another four years of tax cuts for the rich, and the sort of shoot from the hip braggadocio that could result in World War III.

Part I presents the devastating affects that the Bush administration is having on working Americans, women, retirees, developing nations, and the environment. Then, unlike most sociopolitical critiques, Part II, most of the book, offers 21 specific strategies for transforming America from an empire-building war machine into a peace-loving, benevolent nation. Among many other things, The American Challenge offers a humanitarian paradigm shift in our domestic and foreign policy.

While the need for books like The American Challenge is great, such books are in short supply. With your help, we can make a difference; we can create a 21st century that is far less onerous and bloody than was the 20th. With your help, we can resuscitate the visions of Lincoln, FDR, and Eisenhower for an America that cherishes humanitarian ideals and peace, an America that shuns bullying and exploitation, and instead works in concert with other nations as an equal partner.

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