How to Beat the Democrats: And Other Subversive Ideas

by David Horowitz

Book Overview

Even in a time of war, Democrats, still smarting from their loss of the White House, are sharpening their knives for the next election. But David Horowitz is ready for them with an indispensable... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1890626503
• ISBN13: 9781890626501
• Release Date: January 2003
• Publisher: Spence Publishing Company
• Length: 259 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

POWERFUL!

I spent much of my life outside the USA - altogether over 20 years, and involving 4 continents. I've yet to see one place that favorably compares with the USA, in that our country is about the ideals, ideas and inspirations of free people. We're not without fault to be sure, but FREE people - do we really realize what that means? While I was serving in Vietnam, Jane Fonda (exactly my age) was encouraging and consorting with our enemy. For the longest, I was unable to totally understand how this could happen and why some of our citizens can actively support our enemies, and apparently hate our great country and every ideal it stands for. This book, together with Patrick Buchanan's "The Death of the West" has given me clear insight into the nonsensical and dangerous thinking of the progressive left. I learned that it is actually a movement which theorizes that "If I can control your thinking, I can reshape the world according to my philosophy and thereby make it a better place." The left's message of hope to the downtrodden is generally a lie, since leadership of the movement is actually built on the hedonistic fragrance of self aggrandizement. This idea goes all the way back to Adam and Eve's becoming enthralled by the beast's temptation to "become as Gods", to the citizens of Babel's attempt to construct their own highway to heaven, and to Karl Marx' attempt to erect heaven on earth for the world's downtrodden. Never mind that Communism has murdered over 100 million human beings during it's existence, while simultaneously the left in our country suggests we busy ourselves with such trivialities as racial profiling! Although the modern day leadership of the left may nor be card carrying communists, their activist ideas are essential the same. The sad part is that socialism, in any form, can never be a success. I remember a young tour guide in Russia telling me just after communism had fallen that the citizens always knew it was a lie. To be sure, socialism must be built on a lie because it against human nature and attempts to force it's tenents on humanity must be accomplished forcefully, i.e. by resumption of the gulags, funny-farm camps and mass murders. The real danger rests in the fact that it is a shock how few people in our country have taken the time to inform themselves about the dangers of this movement. Thomas Jefferson said that an informed populus is the key to democracy. It is equally true that all of us in one way or another are our own worst enemy, and I often think this about blind followers of the activist left.

Biting, determined, severe, and unquestionably partisan

How To Beat The Democrats: And Other Subversive Ideas by political strategist and commentator David Horowitz is a biting, determined, severe, and unquestionably partisan political manifesto. Sharply blaming Democrats and the political left for "undermining America's security" and contributing to a climate that allowed the September 11 attacks, How To Beat The Democrats pulls neither punches nor opinions. The majority of this politically conservative book consists of harsh attacks upon the left for being "unrepentant" in its too-light treatment of accused and convicted criminals, too-lax defense policy, too-much spending, and worse. While How To Beat The Democrats presents numerous strongly worded arguments, with plenty of anecdotal illustration, it is emphatically not a "how-to" book that teaches the reader tips and techniques for winning elections against Democratic opponents. Rather, How To Beat The Democrats is a book of ideas, powerful and unrestrained. Though Horowitz's specific political assertions may be challenged and countered by opposing political views, his emotional honesty in speaking so unambiguously is beyond dispute and really quite refreshing.

A Must Read for Informed Voters...Republican and Democrat

David Horowitz is the Noam Chomsky of Conservatism -- yet Horowitz actually knows what he's talking about. A former 60's radical, Horowitz knows firsthand the motivations and mentality of the Left and exposes the hypocrisy and underlying Socialist/Marxist philosophy that drives the Democratic Party and Liberals in power today.The book is mostly an expose of the failures of the Democratic Party that have caused more harm than good to the nation, but mostly to the very people Democrats claim to fight for: the poor and minorities. Horowitz goes a step further, though, and documents the ways that Republicans have and are trying to level the playing field between rich and poor and eliminate discrimination in matters of education, jobs, Social Security, etc.Horowitz's call to arms for Republicans is simply the acknowledgement that Republicans have a tendancy to use gentleman's tactics when it comes to political warfare; something Democrats have never restrained themselves to. Horowitz challenges Republicans to fight back with the issues, arguing that confronting accusations with solid facts is key.It's unfortunate that this book is titled "How to Beat the Democrats", because it will most likely turn a lot politically-moderate readers away before they even crack the cover. This is a book that every voter should read, whether Republican or Democrat, and draw one's own conclusions from the facts Horowitz provides to support his claims.

Horowitz takes a wrecking ball to the Left

In How to Beat the Democrats and Other Subversive Ideas, Horowitz uses ruthless intellect to demolish the foundations upon which the new Left has tried to rebuild itself following the collapse of communism across the world.After reading this book you have to ask how Bill Clinton and Tony Blair can sleep at night. Used as a campaign blueprint, How to Beat the Democrats offers conservatives the tools to take on the Left in electoral combat which have been sadly lacking over the last decade.

A direct hit on the Democrat's system of politics.

Horowitz has hit it big with this book. Just the introduction alone gives you insight on how Bush used the some of the same principles to win in the 2000 election(not that he got them from this book). If you are a conservative fustrated with liberals always beating you down, read this book and you will be able to gain insight and win with strategies that are introduced here. If you are a liberal, well....