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Mike once again cuts through the pseudo-intellectual pomposity generated by most pundits to deliver a straightforward analysis of what’s wrong with this stupid country, and what he thinks needs to be done to fix it. I don’t always agree with his conclusions—to me, Obama is just one more in a long line of DLC corporatists—but he does manage to show that our problems, while not exactly easy to address, are also not nearly as complex as self-serving political “scientists” and other wonks make them out to be. As a matter of fact, as the book shows, if one ignores the Orwellian spin doctors and applies some good old populist perspective, it’s amazing how our most trying social concerns suddenly seem to lose the aspect of overwhelming doom.