We the People Are the Problem

How Americans Betrayed America

By: Peter Magistrale

Narrated by: Chuck Galco

Length: 5 hrs and 4 mins

Publisher's summary

The American who shows a distaste for civic responsibility and whose great aim in life is comfort and ease is a greater threat to America than any terrorist. The American who mindlessly chants, “USA! USA! USA!” when a politician wraps themselves in the flag permits the highest of crimes. The American who votes for the politicians who steal, lie, and cheat should share a cell with the criminals they ignorantly empower.

We treat politics like a high school prom, sporting event, or beauty contest, and then we wonder why we have atrocious leaders. Is the answer not yet clear? We have incompetent citizens. It is these incompetent citizens, of all political parties, that are destroying America.

Until we become more enlightened citizens, our leaders will reflect our debasement, our laws will reflect our ignorance, and our future will reflect our cowardice. The battle for the hearts and minds of Americans is the battle that will determine the destruction of the United States or a rebirth of human achievement not seen since the European Renaissance. Our renaissance will need Americans just like you to commit to seeking the truth, commit to lifelong self-improvement, and take actions that reflect a sense of civic responsibility.

It will require us to destroy our political allegiances and pledge loyalty only to reason, truth, and excellence. We must focus on our renaissance, our rebirth, and becoming exceptional citizens.

©2020 Peter Magistrale (P)2020 Peter Magistrale

Mixed Truths

I've stopped and started again several times due simply to the mixed truths presented, and the mixture of offense and outright disgust as they are intermingled with blatant perversion of said information and therefore the message presented. Rome. Wow. He sorta left out slavery? Education? With an occasional exception on!y the royalty, the elite, were educated, getting their less delicate bodily functions attended to by slaves. My first cup of coffee and I can take care of things without you, thank you! Ok, back to now.

The best part about the whole college debt? One didn't need a college degree to be able to do more than merely survive before this last 20 years. A high school, perhaps an AA (2 year) degree was helpful. Well? Guess what? No more, which is why public education was invented to begin with, because people who couldn't read were worthless to both themselves and their employer.

Long about the first time I found my teeth begin to grate the first time, I should have stopped. The author is the vary problem he describes: over educated, under aware and with a misrepresented objective; a modern liberalist. Think Republicans in Blue Suits. Nouveau Riche. He IS the problem he so detests. What's worse? A fine education having produced someone who can't wrap his head around the product of said education, or the classic flaw he represents: He knows exactly what he's doing and an is counting on that lousy public (and it is lousy) education to keep you from seeing through his "heartfelt" facade.

Not what I thought.

I originally purchased this book because I believe that the American people are ultimately most to blame if we are unsatisfied with our current state of politics. I was curious to explore Magistrale's arguments, and assumed that they would be reasonable and measured. What the reader gets instead are a jumble of contradictions, conspiracies, and logical fallacies. Are Americans shirking responsibility for maintaining our republic? I think so! However, you'll have to find a book besides this one to hear arguments for that conclusion made in a convincing fashion. I should mention in conclusion that the narrator, Chuck Galco, does a good job.