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"Our constitutional republic is on life support, ravaged by the viruses of avarice and Social Darwinism.  Read this amazing book to learn how you can become part of America's cure." - Jason S. Miller, Thomas Paine's Corner

"A masterful and comprehensive analysis of the most salient issues of our time:: the intersection of democracy, morality, citizenship and the quality of everyday life.  Anyone who is trouble by the claim that something has gone terribly wrong owes it to himself or herself to spend a few hours with this book." - Jerry Fresia, author of Toward an American Revolution

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A clear-headed view of mass manipulation, September 22, 2006 Reviewer: Gabriel S. Heilig "Gabe Heilig" (Takoma Park, MD) - What can you say about someone who gets it right? Once you see through the veils, it's all too painfully clear. The author of this hard-headed, warm-hearted book gets it right, and right on the nose. His dissection of our "fearless leader" in debate -- with prompting from a device wired to his back, giving him facts to use in the debate -- is alone worth the price of this book. He has painstakingly researched what happened and how it could technically have been done (the author is a trained engineer); and his discussion of the silence of the mainstream media describes a national scandal that never happened, but one that keeps happening, day in and day out, on our pablum maintstream "news" broadcasts. I run an executive resume service in the Pentagon. I hear and see a lot of spinning and worse about enough to make any citizen sick. The country is being hypnotized, and the Red and the Blue are each being convinced of their righteous wrath. No one listens, everyone yells. Here is a book that deconstructs the delusion and din, and offers sound ideas about how to move forward in rebuilding our national democracy. We could all do a lot worse than to spend a few illuminating, but disturbing, hours with the author as he takes us step by painful step through the mists and minefields of our delusions toward the profile of a clear-eyed vision for a possible future. Books like this deserve an audience. Authors like this deserve readers.

Delusional Democracy is a super dissection of the dismantling of our republic.  It combines heart and mind to produce substance of high literary achievement...   - Dominique Nahas, noted art critic, curator, teacher and writer

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