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Shame - How America's Past Sins Have Polarized Our Country (Hardcover)
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Shame - How America's Past Sins Have Polarized Our Country (Hardcover)
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The United States today is hopelessly polarized the political Right
and Left have hardened into rigid and deeply antagonistic camps,
preventing any sort of progress. Amid the bickering and inertia,
the promise of the 1960s,when we came together as a nation to fight
for equality and universal justice,remains unfulfilled.As Shelby
Steele reveals in Shame , the roots of this impasse can be traced
back to that decade of protest, when in the act of uncovering and
dismantling our national hypocrisies,racism, sexism,
militarism,liberals internalized the idea that there was something
inauthentic, if not evil, in the America character. Since then,
liberalism has been wholly concerned with redeeming modern American
from the sins of the past, and has derived its political legitimacy
from the premise of a morally bankrupt America. The result has been
a half-century of well-intentioned but ineffective social programs,
such as Affirmative Action. Steele reveals that not only have these
programs failed, but they have in almost every case actively harmed
America's minorities and poor. Ultimately, Steele argues, post-60s
liberalism has utterly failed to achieve its stated aim: true
equality. Liberals, intending to atone for our past sins, have
ironically perpetuated the exploitation of this country's least
fortunate citizens.It therefore falls to the Right to defend the
American dream. Only by reviving our founding principles of
individual freedom and merit-based competition can the fraught
legacy of American history be redeemed, and only through freedom
can we ever hope to reach equality.Approaching political
polarization from a wholly new perspective, Steele offers a
rigorous critique of the failures of liberalism and a cogent
argument for the relevance and power of conservatism.
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