received this as a free book through the Goodreads review program,
I had a hard time deciding onstar orstars, and ultimately ended onstars, because its not all bad, I definitely think its a "preaching to the choir" style piece of work, where those who believe in these policies will praise it, whilst those who don't won't.
Its akin to reading Glenn Beck, Michael Moore, Bill Maher, or even Ron Paul works where if you agree with their political ideologies and stances you'll trumpet it but if you don't believe in them, you will likely lamblast it.
I won't say they are all bad ideas, but I definitely think there's a lot wrong with her ideas, And as she tries to say near the end that we could be moving closer towards aOrwellian future, her book if followed to the letter would lead us there even quicker,
Firstly, I think her views on evolution and males and females is horribly misleading and incorrect, She also uses cherrypicked citations that overlook things and points to some flaws, For instance she talks at length about the differences in structure of male and female brains despite in just this past NovemberDecember could be January, I'd have to look up the sources numerous neurological, scientific, and regular AP news outlets CNN, WP, USAT, have posted several studies with indepth results showing how there is no differences structurally between male/female brains and thus going a long way towards showing how there is transgenderism, homosexuality, etc.
. Her psychology of how males evolve and how we still operates paints us in the prototypical feministic 'manape creature' stereotype, All with her giving a chapter to feminisim and how we need to remove stereotypes from women,
She goes into discussions on sterilization, mandatory birth control, mandatory meetings/programs/tests to allow people to have children, She describes how we should create mandatory community service posthigh school during college/or just for two years after High school, Programs enabling the elderly should be bumped toand people should be working tominimum,
Like I said there is plenty wrong with her ideas and policies, The book itself is given its publisher/style rather unflattering in the sense that it reads like an internet messageboard, Paragraph two returns space paragraph
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All in all, if you follow her ideas and policies, you will tout this book and love it, if you don't you won't, I wouldn't say its a great 'thinkpiece' because most of these ideas congressional term limits, sterilization for unfit mothers/fathers, racial relations and how blacks need to be better parents, etc.
can all be found on most online forums/pages etc especially on most Republican sites, There is a Christian backing to her work, but she does outright say that basically the Bible is wrong on numerous accounts, and therefore, reads like a modern Christian 'the Bible is a metaphor' style accounting of Christian backing.
A postmodernism Republican take on how to 'fix America' if you're into that, you'll probably love this, "No society can survive if its leaders feel that it is not worth keeping, "
Amen, sister!
Author Savannah Jordan's 'Rescuing America's Democracy From Its Collapsing Morality' tackles the "disturbing developments within American society"
But she not only addresses these problems, she also offers reasonable solutions for each one!
Very direct and simple to understand, the timing for this book is perfect.
A Seriously Smart Lady.
"I realize that it is fashionable nowadays to assert that the culture of the United States is no better than any other culture and that it makes no difference if its culture is destroyed and replaced by another"
I don't usually read nonfiction, but I really enjoyed this book.
I'm giving this bookstars,an extra star for having the cojones to step out onto an increasingly unpopular limb with these controversial issues,
"Remember, democracy never lasts long, it's soon wastes, exhausts and murders itself, There was never a democracy that did not commit suicide" SJ/JA
I received a signed copy of the book from a Goodreads Giveaway.
Thank You!
Great book I didn't enjoy this book it's out my comfort zone, I don't really enjoy politics, Thank you Goodreads and Savannah Jordan for my winning of this book, . I agree that the morality in the US has gone downhill and it does need rescuing, and that more should care about what is happening to our country for the future I don't agree with all that was written as how it could be done many opinions were written but not real solutions.
. I received a copy of this book for free through Goodreads giveaway,
First I'd like to list what this book DOES and DOES NOT explain,
What this book DOES NOT explain:
, Who is Savannah Jordan and why should we care at all about her opinions
What this book DOES explain:
, Savannah Jordan's opinions.
That being said, once I got past the third chapter I was pleasantly surprised by how much I enjoyed reading this book, but not necessarily because I agree with all of the author's opinions.
In fact, I partially enjoyed reading her book because some of her positions are so ridiculous that they are laughable, However, I can also respect some of her positions and I enjoyed hearing things from her perspective She never provides a clear plan of action for accomplishing these changes, but I don't think that was the intention for her book anyway.
MOST of her opinions are wellarticulated and wellrounded, and I appreciate that she has some opinions that are conservative and some that are liberal,
So sorry I was desperately looking forward to reading this but then was sorry that I won it from Goodreads, It's so dogmatic, rigid, and makes invalid assumptions and generalizations for the statements that she makes, For example she speaks of evolution, species survival, intense pleasure of the vitor, sexually dominant males, DNA, animal practices, superior males, the practices essential for democracy, etc.
etc. etc. in just the introduction. Her only references, no scientific basis for her words, are De Tocqueville and Kant, The words MUST and Should recur and reoccur, Using a reference which referred to a quotation from another source was disturbing, one example is on p,Ms. Jordan according to the book has an M, S. in Organic Chemistry. . but there seems to be a real lack of scientific validation/justification of "solutions" presented in this book, This is a book full of opinions, Well, you know what they say about opinions,
The author should have first established herself as someone qualified to hold a respected opinion on the dozenodd topics covered, She didn't, and I suspect she couldn't, She doesn't redeem it with outstanding research, And ultimately her arguments were mostly illinformed and illargued, So, embarrassingly, even if her opinions were spoton, this book won't convince anyone of it,
A word to those wanting to be wise: America ISN'T a democracy it's a constitutional republic, If you don't understand the difference, then step away from the politics,
To the couple of other reviewers who claimed that this book is the work of Republicans or Donald Trump: no, At almost every problem raised in this book, the author points a biggovernment, authoritarian/totalitarian state solution, And if you'd actually read the book, you'd have noticed that the author specifically states she voted for Obama both times, So this is no piece of work by a GOP thinker,
As to myself, I normally vote Republican and consider myself a "smallL libertarian" and I would never want to live in a country run according to the mandates, requirements, bylaws, penalties and other "nanny knows best" strictures espoused in this book.
Two only because I finished it without flinging it out the window, and there are a few correct needles in the haystack but not enough to be worth spending the time to find.
PS: For the firstor so pages I was noting down every substantial point I disagreed with and rebutting it, but I gave up I never would have finished the book.
Having only read the preview, I'm going ahead and entering the Goodreads Giveaway for this book, despite the fact that I strongly suspect that my ideas about morality and its manifestation and, by extension, it's collapse will largely be out of sync with author Savannah Jordan's.
On top of that, although she writes quite well, she's not an academic, a journalist, or cites any qualifications at all for writing this book, usually a personal prerequisite for me to read a nonfiction book.
However, I'm willing to read this one anyway should it come to me free, and especially considering that it's onlypages, because frankly, I need an existential palette cleanser to aerate the relentless onslaught of grossness and horror coming out of the Republicans in power today.
This book was written before Trump was elected, so we had absolutely no idea the utter hell that was about to be unleashed, The basic beliefs of Ms, Jordan discussed in the preview come off as downright radical for a conservative in this extremist age: she believes in both evolution and global warming, thinks it's appropriate and even awesome that women have careers, doesn't believe that blacks were better off as slaves or that the Iraq War was either justified or a good idea, seems to support the separation of church and state, and didn't once insult Muslims.
However, she's still appears to be a conservative at her core, has a overly simplistic approach to solving complicated problems, and therefore most of the practical ideas I read were pretty terrible I get the impression from others' reviews that all of them are.
She occasionally falls into a ludicrous trope now and again such as, "Intellectuals want wideopen borders with unrestricted immigration! They must really hate America!" and "People who aren't religious have no ethics whatsoever!" and she has utterly Byzantine, scientifically incorrect, and harmful beliefs about men, women, and their relationship to each other.
But overall, by today's standards, she seems almost quaintly polite and reasonable,
Oh to relive those halcyon days of yore, .