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Roughly 100 people showed up at Powell's Books in Portland, Oregon, Monday evening to hear the editors of Reason magazine, Matt Welch and Nick Gillespie, talk about their new book, The Declaration of Independents: How Libertarian Politics Can Fix What's Wrong With America. The presentation they gave was much like the one featured in the video at the top of this item.
They argue that although it may seem like we're stuck with two lousy political parties, the Republicans and the Democrats, their perverse duopoly, headquartered in Washington, D.C., isn't going to last forever. Disgusted by the status quo, voters are increasingly identifying as independents, and if they team up on certain issues, aided by Internet technology that makes grassroots organizing easier than ever, they can successfully lobby for once unthinkable policy changes.
The work of entertaining writers, the book is refreshing, especially among political tomes, for several reasons: it offers an original but plausible take on recent history, doesn't blame a partisan enemy for all that ails America, and advances an argument too complicated to fully convey in a review -- hence its critical success in a genre where many titles run out of ideas at the end of the subtitle.
They argue that although it may seem like we're stuck with two lousy political parties, the Republicans and the Democrats, their perverse duopoly, headquartered in Washington, D.C., isn't going to last forever. Disgusted by the status quo, voters are increasingly identifying as independents, and if they team up on certain issues, aided by Internet technology that makes grassroots organizing easier than ever, they can successfully lobby for once unthinkable policy changes.
The work of entertaining writers, the book is refreshing, especially among political tomes, for several reasons: it offers an original but plausible take on recent history, doesn't blame a partisan enemy for all that ails America, and advances an argument too complicated to fully convey in a review -- hence its critical success in a genre where many titles run out of ideas at the end of the subtitle.
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