Dumbocracy
About
In every election year, we hear much about the allpowerful “bases” of each major party. Who are these activists? What drives them? And why are they all equally dangerous to our lives, liberties, and pursuits of happiness? In Dumbocracy, journalist Marty Beckerman spends four years with foot soldiers of the Left and Right--prochoice and antichoice, progay rights and antigay rights, prowar and antiwar--and delivers a searing, hilarious indictment of the True Believer mentality.
Whether it’s banning free speech to protect people’s feelings or banning adult entertainment to enforce morality, extremists have no use for our civil liberties. The ends justify the means for each side--such as brainwashing children and criminalizing dissent--because culture warriors have no other reason for living than victory. However, Beckerman is unafraid to expose their tactics--and their neverending hypocrisies--with comical, overthetop glee worthy of South Park or The Daily Show.
No extremist will escape unscathed, but moderate readers of all stripes will fall in love with Beckerman’s iconoclasm. In the tradition of P.J. O’Rourke’s Parliament of Whores and Michael Moore’s Stupid White Men, Beckerman’s grand political satire will have readers laughing on the floor and ripping the hair from their scalps.
Praise for this book
"Great book."
"Dumbocracy is a thoughtful book with great shock value geared to awaken, entertain and enlighten Marty's generation about the freedoms embedded in our Bill of Rights. Beyond the spoofing, it is passionate, scholarly, and delivers the message that young people need to hear."
"[H]ilarious yet powerful... many of his rants are on point. ... And if he makes young readers pay attention to politics, more power to him."
"If offensive humor is your thing, then Dumbocracy will be your bible. ... [I]f you like South Park, The Daily Show or The Colbert Report, you won’t be able to hold in your laughter..."
"Beckerman ... goes beyond tipping the Sacred Cows of American Politics; he eviscerates them, bathes in their blood, makes suspenders from their intestines, and runs naked through the field of carcasses. He’s profane, mean-spirited, obscene, and damned hysterical."
"[F]unny and gleefully provocative."
“Beckerman attacks the hot-button issues with a hilariously irreverent humor that makes you squirm, ponder and laugh at the obsessive state of affairs of American culture and politics… He intelligently admonishes a nation to reclaim and engage in a rational dialogue…”
“Amusing, and often laugh-out-loud… Beckerman’s research is, to put it in very clear terms, exceptional.”