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If we were to rely on what the pundits and politicians tell us, we would have to conclude that America is a deeply conservative nation. Americans, we hear constantly, detest government, demand lower taxes and the end of welfare, and favor the death penalty, prayer in school, and an absolute faith in the free market.And yet Americans believe deeply in progressive ideas. In fact, progressivism has long been a powerful force in the American psyche. Consider that a mere generation ago the struggle for environmentally sound policies, for womens rights, and for racial equality were fringe movements. Today, open opposition to these core ideals would be political suicide.Drawing on this wellspring of American progressivist tradition, John K. Wilson has penned an informal handbook for the pragmatic progressive. Wilson insists that the left must become more savvy in its rhetoric and stop preaching only to the converted. Progressives need to attack the tangible realities of the corporate welfare state, while explicitly acknowledging that socialism is, as Wilson writes, deader than Lenin.Rather than attacking a right-wing conspiracy, Wilson argues that the left needs one, too. Tracing how well-funded conservative pressure groups have wielded their influence and transformed the national agenda, Wilson outlines a similar approach for the left. Along the way, he exposes the faultlines of our poll- and money-driven form of politics, explodes the myth of the liberal media, and demands that the left explicitly change its image.Irreverent, practical, and urgently argued, How The Left Can Win Arguments and Influence People charts a way to translate progressive ideals into reality and reassert the core principles of the American left on the national stage.

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HOW THE LEFT CAN WIN ARGUMENTS AND INFLUENCE PEOPLE
CRITICAL AMERICA
General Editors: RICHARD DELGADO and JEAN STEFANCIC
White by Law: The Legal Construction of Race
Ian F. Haney Lpez
Cultivating Intelligence: Power, Law, and the Politics of Teaching
Louise Harmon and Deborah W. Post
Privilege Revealed: How Invisible Preference Undermines America
Stephanie M. Wildman with Margalynne Armstrong,
Adrienne D. Davis, and Trina Grillo
Does the Law Morally Bind the Poor? or What Goods the
Constitution When You Cant Afford a Loaf of Bread?

R. George Wright
Hybrid: Bisexuals, Multiracials, and Other Misfits
under American Law

Ruth Colker
Critical Race Feminism: A Reader
Edited by Adrien Katherine Wing
Immigrants Out! The New Nativism and the Anti-Immigrant
Impulse in the United States

Edited by Juan F. Perea
Taxing America
Edited by Karen B. Brown and Mary Louise Fellows
Notes of a Racial Caste Baby: Color Blindness and the End of
Affirmative Action

Bryan K. Fair
Please Dont Wish Me a Merry Christmas:
A Critical History of the Separation of Church and State
Stephen M. Feldman
To Be an American: Cultural Pluralism and the
Rhetoric of Assimilation
Bill Ong Hing
Negrophobia and Reasonable Racism: The Hidden Costs of
Being Black in America

Jody David Armour
Black and Brown in America: The Case for Cooperation
Bill Piatt
Black Rage Confronts the Law
Paul Harris
Selling Words: Free Speech in a Commercial Culture
R. George Wright
The Color of Crime: Racial Hoaxes, White Fear, Black Protectionism,
Police Harassment, and Other Macroaggressions

Katheryn K. Russell
The Smart Culture: Society, Intelligence, and Law
Robert L. Hayman Jr.
Was Blind, But Now I See: White Race Consciousness and the Law
Barbara J. Flagg
The Gender Line: Men, Women, and the Law
Nancy Levit
Heretics in the Temple: Americans Who Reject the Nations
Legal Faith

David Ray Papke
The Empire Strikes Back: Outsiders and the Struggle over
Legal Education

Arthur Austin
Interracial Justice: Conflict and Reconciliation in
PostCivil Rights America
Eric K. Yamamoto
Black Men on Race, Gender, and Sexuality: A Critical Reader
Edited by Devon Carbado
When Sorry Isnt Enough: The Controversy over Apologies and
Reparations for Human Injustice

Edited by Roy L. Brooks
Disoriented: Asian Americans, Law, and the Nation State
Robert S. Chang
Rape and the Culture of the Courtroom
Andrew E. Taslitz
The Passions of Law
Edited by Susan A. Bandes
Global Critical Race Feminism: An International Reader
Edited by Adrien Katherine Wing
Law and Religion: Critical Essays
Edited by Stephen M. Feldman
Changing Race: Latinos, the Census, and the History of Ethnicity
Clara E. Rodrguez
From the Ground Up: Environmental Racism and the Rise of
the Environmental Justice Movement

Luke Cole and Sheila Foster
Nothing But the Truth: Why Trial Lawyers Dont, Cant, and
Shouldnt Have to Tell the Whole Truth

Steven Lubet
Critical Race Theory: A Primer
Richard Delgado and Jean Stefancic
Playing It Safe: How the Supreme Court Sidesteps Hard Cases
Lisa A. Kloppenberg
Why Lawsuits Are Good for America: Disciplined Democracy,
Big Business, and the Common Law

Carl T. Bogus
How the Left Can Win Arguments and Influence People:
A Tactical Manual for Pragmatic Progressives

John K. Wilson
HOW THE LEFT CAN WIN ARGUMENTS AND INFLUENCE PEOPLE
A Tactical Manual for Pragmatic Progressives
John K. Wilson
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS New York and London 2001 by New York University All - photo 1
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
New York and London
2001 by New York University
All rights reserved
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Wilson, John K., 1969
How the left can win arguments and influence people : a tactical
manual for pragmatic progressives / John K. Wilson.
p. cm.
ISBN 0-8147-9362-2 (cloth) ISBN 0-8147-9363-0 (pbk.)
1. LiberalismUnited States. 2. Progressivism (United States
politics) 3. Right and left (Political science) I. Title.
JC574.2U6 W57 2001
320.5130973dc21 2001000739
New York University Press books are printed on acid-free paper,
and their binding materials are chosen for strength and durability.
Manufactured in the United States of America
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CONTENTS
Chapter 1
The Death of Socialism
Chapter 2
The Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy (and Why the Left-Wing Needs One, Too)
Chapter 3
The Failure of Centrism and the Fall of the Democratic Party
Chapter 4
Polls: The Circle of Lies
Chapter 5
The Politics of Money: Campaign Financing and One Dollar, One Vote
Chapter 6
The Myth of the Liberal Media: How the Press Attacks Progressives
Chapter 7
The Globalization Wars: How the Left Won (and Lost) the Battle in Seattle
Chapter 8
Pragmatic Progressives
Chapter 9
Talking Tax Cuts: Lowering Taxes on the Poor
Chapter 10
Making Crime a Progressive Issue
Chapter 11
Winning the Culture Wars
Chapter 12
Equality for Every Child: Reforming Education
Chapter 13
Fighting the Union Label: Labor on the Left
Chapter 14
The Race for Justice: Defending Affirmative Action
Chapter 15
Universal Health Care
Chapter 16
Greener Politics: Progressives and the Environment
Chapter 17
Why We Need Welfare and How to Change It
Chapter 18
Ending Corporate Welfare As We Know It
Chapter 19
The Defense Industry: How to Protect America by Cutting the Military
Chapter 20
Saving Social Security
Chapter 21
The Future of Progressives: Generation Left
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Many people assisted me in writing this book. Niko Pfund, the former editor in chief of New York University Press, along with Richard Delgado and Jean Stefancic, editors of the Critical America series, first approached me with the idea. The book, however, has changed substantially from the original concept.
I thank Stephen Magro, Richard Delgado, Leticia Cortez, and Tom Wilson for reading drafts and making comments. The staff at New York University Press, including Despina Papazoglou Gimbel and Andrew Katz, ably prepared the manuscript for publication. I also owe a debt to too many people and organizations to mention, for their passionate work writing and researching and protesting about the numerous topics discussed in this book.
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