Dumbocracy: Adventures with the Loony Left, the Rabid Right, and Other American Idiots

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.

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