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Morality Wars: How Empires, the Born Again, and the Politically Correct Do Evil in the Name of Good
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Charles Derber / Yale R Magrass
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Is patriotism a good thing in an empire? Did General Petraeus betray us or did Moveon? Does morality often serve immoral purposes? Morality Wars shows us how to understand the subtext of these questions and of all the debates about moral values and liberal versus conservative ideology. Derber and Magrass show that the moral problem today is not just lying but immoral morality, doing evil in the name of good (e.g., Bush preemptively invading Iraq to spread liberty). The authors explore three ancient codes of immoral morality frighteningly resurrected in America today -those of empire, the politically correct, and the born again. Although the right today has recrafted historic arguments that empires bring peace, and fundamentalists battle moral decay, the authors show the Democratic Party and the left have their own IM, with Democrats supporting empire and the left its own political correctness. Americas political divide today is a backlash to the progressive revolution of the 1960s and 1970s-secular, antiwar, and feminist-that created a radical break from traditional values and set the stage for current morality wars. In the spirit of de Tocqueville, this powerful book offers a rich and vivid portrait of Americas political landscape, exploring ideas that can help move the nation to a new morality and politics.

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MORALITY WARS

OTHER BOOKS BY CHARLES DERBER

The Wilding of America, 4th ed. (2006)

The Wilding of America holds the glass up to our time, and one winces at the likeness.

JACK BEATTY, Atlantic Monthly and On Point political analyst at NPR

Hidden Power (2005)

Hidden Power is the must-read book of the year. Buy three copies, at least, because youll want to share a few with friends, and will never want to part with your own well-marked-up copy.

THOM HARTMANN, best-selling author and host of Air America

Hidden Power was selected as one of the top three current events books by the Independent Book Publishers Association.

Regime Change Begins at Home (2004)

Derber provides a penetrating and compelling analysis of why this particular regimes days are numbered.

JULIET SCHOR, author of The Overworked American and Born to Buy

People before Profit (2003)

Professor Derbers impressive analysis is an important contribution to the ongoing worldwide debate about globalization.

SENATOR EDWARD KENNEDY

The Pursuit of Attention (2000)

Competition and individualism in America are fresh topics in his hands, and he works out a theory of great interest.

RICHARD SENNETT, author of Hidden Injuries of Class
and The Corrosion of Character

Corporation Nation (2000)

A work of generation imagination and a sober plan of action for Americans committed to a truly just and equitable social order.

JONATHAN KOZOL, author of Amazing Grace and Savage Inequalities

Power in the Highest Degree (1990) coauthored with William Schwartz and Yale R. Magrass

An excellent guide to understanding the system of Mandarin capitalism and its wide-ranging human consequences.

NOAM CHOMSKY, author of Perilous Power (2006)

MORALITY WARS

How Empires, the Born-Again,
and the Politically Correct
Do Evil in the Name of Good

CHARLES DERBER

WITH YALE R. MAGRASS

First published 2010 by Paradigm Publishers

Published 2010 by Routledge
2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4RN
711 Third Avenue, New York, NY 10017, USA

Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers.

Notice:
Product or corporate names may be trademarks or registered trademarks, and are used only for identification and explanation without intent to infringe.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Derber, Charles.
Morality wars : how empires, the born again, and the politically correct do evil in the name of good / Charles Derber, with Yale R. magrass.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-1-59451-512-5 (hardcover : alk. paper)
ISBN 978-1-59451-513-2 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1. Political ethicsUnited States.
2. United StatesPolitics and governmentmoral and ethical aspects. I. magrass, Yale R. II. Title.
JK468.E7D47 2008
172.0973dc22
2007050055

Designed and Typeset by Straight Creek Bookmakers.

ISBN 13: 978-1-59451-512-5 (hbk)
ISBN 13: 978-1-59451-513-2 (pbk)

To Elena, my anchor and love (from Charles Derber)

To Anna, for her love and support (from Yale Magrass)

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Contents

When Right Is Wrong
Why Immoral Morality Is Epidemic in America

How to Be Chosen:
What the Roman and British Empires Taught America

Americas Moral Big Stick:
How Thomas Jefferson, Andrew Jackson, Teddy Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, Ronald Reagan, and George W. Bush Taught Us to Police the World

The Mass Psychology of Empire:
Why Bostonians Believe in the Red Sox and Americans Believe in America

Hitlers Born-Again Story:
Fascism as an Immoral Moral Awakening

Moral Calamity in Dixie:
Rebirth of a Southern Nation

God Bless America:
The Republican Party and American Theo-Corpocracy

The Invisible Political Correctness:
The Right Is Your Big Brother

Left Political Correctness:
When Free Thinkers Become Dogmatists

When Losers Are Winners:
How Americans Are Finding a New Moral Compass

My Brothers Keeper, My Sisters Keeper:
Morality Wars in the Age of Obama

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Charles Derber and Yale magrass developed the ideas for this book together. The argument grew out of our many hours of conversation, mutual refection, and shared research and analysis. Derber did the writing.

We want to thank, first, Dean Birkenkamp, the founder of Paradigm Publishing. We are fortunate to have a publisher who is intellectually engaged, willing to risk controversy, and generous with his time and spirit. many thanks, Dean, for your support and for your humanity.

Derber wants to thank David Karp and John Williamsoncolleagues and friends who keep me going with humor, intellectual stimulation, and generous attention.

Derber also wishes to thank most Elena Kolesnikova, who made a major contribution to this book. Elena edited and transformed the entire manuscript, creating a new flow and coherence. Her contributions have made her a full co-conspirator in this project. Elena, thank you for your inspired work on this project and for being my beautiful, feisty partner who warms hearth and heart.

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In the summer of 2005, Jane McGonigal, a doctoral student in performance studies at the University of California, launched the Ministry of Reshelving Project. Along with at least one hundred other reshelving ministers, her goal was to reshelf George Orwells classic novel 1984 from the fiction to the nonfiction sections of all bookstores in all fifty states. In the main Borders bookstore of Boston, our own city, a minister reshelved Orwells book in the political science section, right next to a book called Inside the Mind of Bush.

McGonigal had gotten the idea to reshelf 1984 when a friend had casually commented that the police state of Orwells imaginationin which Big Brother used omnipresent telescreens to watch you, employed thought police from the Ministry of Truth to monitor your thinking, and invented Newspeak to control your very language so that you couldnt think heretical ideashad now come to pass. Within a week of McGonigal coming up with the idea, more than fifty reshelving ministers filtered into bookstores from California to Kentucky to New York, took

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