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The Disinformation Age - The Collapse of Liberal Democracy in the United States (Paperback)
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The Disinformation Age - The Collapse of Liberal Democracy in the United States (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Advances in American History
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The Disinformation Age, beginning in the present and going back to
the American colonial period, constructs an original historical
explanation for the current political crisis and the reasons the
two major political parties cannot address it effectively.
Commentators inside and outside academia have described this crisis
with various terms - income inequality, the disappearance of the
middle-class, the collapse of the two-party system, and the
emergence of a corporate oligarchy. While this book uses such
terminology, it uniquely provides a unifying explanation for the
current state of the union by analyzing the seismic rupture of
political rhetoric from political reality used within discussion of
these issues. In advancing this analysis, the book provides a term
for this rupture, Disinformation, which it defines not as planned
propaganda but as the inevitable failure of the language of
American Exceptionalism to correspond to actual history, even as
the two major political parties continue to deploy this language.
Further, in its final chapter this book provides a way out of this
political cul-de-sac, what it terms "the limits of capitalism's
imagination," by "thinking from a different place" that is located
in the theory and practice of the Indigenous peoples of the
Americas.
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