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LongTomH

(8,636 posts) Thu Mar 24, 2016, 07:37 PM Mar 2016

Thomas 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 OP

Thanks for posting this. House of Roberts Mar 2016 #1

Thank you for catching this outstanding event. Way to go Thomas and appalachiablue Mar 2016 #2

House of Roberts

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1. Thanks for posting this.

Reply to LongTomH (Original post)

Thu Mar 24, 2016, 08:28 PM

Mar 2016

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

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2. Thank you for catching this outstanding event. Way to go Thomas and

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Thu Mar 24, 2016, 09:03 PM

Mar 2016

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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.

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