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Loading... Flyover Nation: You Can't Run a Country You've Never Been Toby Dana Loesch
   None No current Talk conversations about this book.  pacbox | Jul 9, 2022 |    ) Skybalon | Mar 19, 2020 | about numerous conservative issues in a plain-spoken manner. Her thesis is pretty much summed up in the book's title and is that the elites on both coasts in their Hollywood mansions, network studios, and Washington D.C.steakhouses are living in a different universe from ordinary Americans. Typified by Obama's remarks about Americans in flyover country bitterly clinging to guns and religion and Hillary's mocking dismissal of them as deplorables, the elites simply don't get ordinary folks. They don't know what it's like to shop at Walmart, to budget, to raise kids, to struggle to earn a living when all the jobs in coal country are being regulated out of existence. But political diatribes on how disconnected Washington is from We, The People, are a dime a dozen on the bookshelves. What Loesch does brilliantly here is she tells her own personal story of growing up in a poor farming area, of being dragged to the city for her mother's job, and of missing the family, the community, the freedom to roam outdoors in her grandparents' small town. This is not just an essay for political junkies. It's a coming of age story about learning lessons about what's important and what's valued. Agree or disagree with Loesch's positions, you can't help but gain a stronger understanding of why and how her experience and her faith helped her come to her conclusions. And it's a timely piece of writing too as we are in a time when our political elites are tone deaf to our needs our wishes. You can't just regulate industries out of existence and think it's okay for the families who are left without a livelihood. Loesch even ties it all in to Darryl Dixon in the Walking Dead as an example of someone from flyover country who could survive anything. There's a lot in this book and Loesch tackles a lot of current hit button issues. The book is without question well worth reading and probably has not received one tenth of the attention it deserves. (  ) DaveWilde | Sep 22, 2017 | no reviews | add a review
"Blaze TV and top radio host Dana Loesch explains that the biggest political problem today is that the people who run this country have no idea what life is really like for ordinary Americans. In fact, they have contempt for the very people they claim to represent. When the owners of a small pizza parlor in Indiana were asked by the local press whether they would ever cater a gay wedding, they said no, citing their personal religious beliefs. The internet responded with immediate outrage, posting death threats and vicious online reviews, and forcing them to shut down. All for expressing a personal opinion rooted in faith, in response to a completely hypothetical question. A new front in the culture war had been opened. When the owners of the pizza parlor told Dana Loesch on a Blaze TV interview that they might never reopen, Loesch started a fundraising campaign. Hundreds of thousands of dollars quickly poured in to support them. The people donating weren't taking a stand against gay rights; they just believed that a random mom-and-pop shop shouldn't be run out of business because media and political elites on both coasts caricature and vilify rural Americans. Most of the problems with our country today can be traced to a very simple cause - the growing disconnect between the government and media elites and the rest of us, the old-fashioned, hard-working, God-fearing Americans who are proud to live in middle America. As Loesch explains, too many people getting on their high horse about Wal-Mart have never shopped in one. Protesters outraged at small town cops have never been helped by one. Environmentalists who claim to want to protect the spotted owl have never been in the woods with one. Atheists who attack committed Christians have never sat in a pew with one. Loesch doesn't take aims solely at the Democrats; some Republicans in Congress and on the presidential campaign trail have also forgotten what life is like for the people back home. While these so-called leaders may have forgotten the people in coal towns and farming communities, the voters in those communities haven't forgotten Washington's betrayals. And it will show in 2016. As one of the most powerful and recognizable voices on talk radio today, Dana Loesch is leading a revolution of America's new Silent Majority"-- No library descriptions found. |
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I admit this book had actual endnotes but only after I flipped to the end of the book. I eventually started skimming because it was so much retread that I felt that there wasn't much new in this book compared other similar books I've read. And still no workable solutions. Even something small and grassroots is better than nothing. Otherwise, it's just whining. (