President Carter proclaims U.S. an oligarchy, and Colonel Laurence Wilkerson says it's a perpetual war machine for defense contractors, weapons manufacturers, and power hungry politicians.
In this eye-opening, witty, painfully honest, Socrates-like hard look in the mirror, Darrell Cass reeducates those 99% of Americans and the world that have been bullied, brainwashed, kidnapped, and beaten into delusional submission by master sorcerers. You will laugh, cry, and be ashamed as he illuminates the ingenious ways our self-serving elite have percolated their morals, values, and ethics down throughout society. One that was willingly hypnotized, brainwashed, and duped into playing its role in this play for modern day privateers through a comprehensive list of cancerous infections we've all spread throughout every segment of society for their benefit.
This brutal confession points out it takes "two to tango" and exposes our seedily choreographed social demise started by Wall Street, politicians, and Super Pac's in the 1980's with just a few selfish, corrupt, moral-less, narcissist on board. But by 2000, when the train pulled out of the station, it was packed full of ordinary Americans under their spell. You will quickly realize, for the last 35 years we've been nothing more than a highway for political ambitions, an extremist punching bag they beat to a pulp, and a puppet they played like a violin for their amusement.
Who caused America's social degradation and empowers the billionaires, politicians, and banking establishments that are more dangerous than standing armies? Who's really responsible for our misguided, irrational, self-absorbed, materialistic, often violent and cruel society and how did it happen? Who helped push the self-destruct button?
Now, the question is: Can we restore our admirable society, or is it too late to sink their moral-less mighty fleet and pull the country back out of "Davy Jones's locker?"
It's almost as if Darrell Cass climbed into a time machine to take a look at America's immediate future, and found it frightening. Such is the feel from reading A Look in the Mirror, which is the most contemporary book on modern America precisely because it nailed many of the nation's political undercurrents, manipulations, and trends even before the November 8th, 2016 election.
Several chapters include the latest damning evidence about Trump's special interests and the ironies involved in the fact that a man connected with federal fraud, money laundering, and billions in failed debt could rise in the system to become President: "As a reward, he is now president and we have the first "foreign born" First Lady." - Diane Donovan, Midwest Book Review
A debut political polemic bemoans the downfall of the United States. Many in the commentariat have heaped blame on the 1 percent, who rig the system from their positions of power in Washington and on Wall Street, but the country's problems go deeper than that. In his introduction, Cass writes, Wall Street's greed is echoed in the unquestioning consumerism of average Americans, and the average person on Main Street is collaborating in the destruction of all that made the nation good. - Kirkus Reviews
About the Author :
Many people are surprised to learn I wrote a book harshly criticizing our current society, including myself, for I never thought about writing a book. But after the last round of bank deregulation and its usual destruction, I couldn't sit on the sidelines any longer. I needed to educate both us and the world what happened when we ignored history the last 35 years and took the unscrupulous path - again! Throughout my book I reveal my Independent affiliation and small town upbringing, morals, values, and ethics. Like most old farmers, I hold little regard for money, status, titles and people in suit coats and ties. I believe, more often than not, they are rather insidious, crooked, selfish, moral less, poachers preying on society and that's why we need an assembly line of Roosevelts to rein them in.
Review :
A debut political polemic bemoans the downfall of the United States.
Many in the commentariat have heaped blame on the 1 percent, who rig the system from their positions of power in Washington and on Wall Street, but the country's problems go deeper than that. In his introduction, Cass writes: "I will, instead, share with you...experiences from family, friends, neighbors, and people like yourselves that typify our newfound greed, selfishness, and social problems." According to the author, Wall Street's greed is echoed in the unquestioning consumerism of average Americans, and the average person on Main Street is collaborating in the destruction of all that made the nation good. Chapter by chapter, Cass takes the reader through various segments of society, pointing out where and how they went wrong, from financial institutions (the first word of that chapter, tellingly, is "PIRATES!!!") to immigrants (who "no longer have any intention of ever assimilating") to sports ("All major sports have gone mad") and religion ("It's being used and abused as a tool for evil intent").
Cass has some faith that things could turn around, but the book's qualified optimism is undercut by its inauspicious penultimate line--"can you imagine an all Republican government led by Donald Trump?" - Kirkus Reviews
It's almost as if Darrell Cass climbed into a time machine to take a look at America's immediate future, and found it frightening. Such is the feel from reading A Look in the Mirror: The Disintegration of Our Morals, Values, Ethics and Society, which is the most contemporary book on modern America precisely because it nailed many of the nation's political undercurrents, manipulations, and trends even before the November 8th, 2016 election.
A Look in the Mirror chronicles the progressive, deliberate demise of America's social structure begun by and influenced by corrupt business and political processes, follows their progression through over thirty years of political maneuvering and manipulative behaviors, and closely analyzes the root causes of these actions and how they've escalated to erode democratic processes and ideals over recent decades.
As chapters reveal deliberate efforts by both individual and corporate entities to do the right thing, only to be thwarted by special interests, legal barriers, and a rising tide of warped priorities, A Look in the Mirror presents both admonitions and damning charges that pull no punches to either side.
Several chapters have been updated to include the latest damning evidence about Trump's special interests and the ironies involved in the fact that a man connected with federal fraud, money laundering, and billions in failed debt could rise in the system to become President: "As a reward, he is now president and we have the first "foreign born" First Lady."
The latest election results were just a confirming endnote putting the icing on the cake of corrupted and co-opted democratic processes.
The question is: can America be 'saved' - and if so, how?
Any American concerned about the country's social and political progress will find A Look in the Mirror draws important connections and makes some statements that may be hard to swallow; but which cannot be ignored.
It doesn't just ask that every American take a hard look at both government and their own individual lives and values. It demands it. - Diane Donovan, Senior Editor, Midwest Book Review
