In America, capitalism is regulated with democracy that requires an informed public. Since 1970, however, income inequality has emerged, unemployment has remained persistently high after the 2008 Great Recession, and America appears to be on a path to becoming a plutocracy.
The central question in American democracy today is how the plutocratic 1% received enough votes from the 99% majority to gain control of governments at the federal, state, and local levels. Several books have recently been written about the emergence of plutocrats, the increasing difficulty of the middle class to achieve the American Dream, and the eroding social safety nets for the 99% since 1970. However, none of these books has described the root cause that enabled the shift of democracy in America into a plutocracy nor have these books been written in the personal, understandable format of a novel with characters, a story, and a descriptive dialog that reveals the new politics.
This political novel, “Plutocrats, Preachers, and Pawns: The Path to Political Power in America,” provides insight for the public and an answer to the central question of how a plutocratic minority is influencing segments of the 99% to elect majorities of representatives in government who favor and support the 1%.
In America, the plutocrats in the 1% have used their wealth to gain political power to create new laws such as the SCOTUS decision on Citizens United that further increase their power. Assisted by new laws, expenditures for political campaigns have significantly increased, but increased spending hasn’t explained the shift in election results.
This book, “Plutocrats, Preachers, and Pawns: The Path to Political Power in America,” tells a story that reveals how wealthy plutocrats have gained majority political power by buying the messaging of preachers in new independent churches to present sermons that deceive white Protestant Christians and influence their votes. Using the deceptive technique of hand selecting, unrelated, self-serving Bible verses and spinning the “authority” of those Biblical verses into “new” Christian stories, wrapped in anti-intellectualism and fundamentalism, such preachers have managed to indoctrinate many of the faithful to support Right-Wing social, plutocratic political positions. By exploiting the faithful’s fear of being “left behind in the Rapture,” such preachers have pressured their parishioners into believing that they must discriminate with racism, homophobia and misogyny, and must always vote Right Wing in support of these social positions in order to be a “true” Christian and ultimately be saved in the Rapture.
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