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The Plot to Change America
How Identity Politics is Dividing the Land of the Free
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The Plot to Change America exposes the myths that help identity politics perpetuate itself. This book will reveal what really has happened, explain why it is urgent to change course, and offer a strategy to do so.
Though we should not fool ourselves into thinking it will be easy to eliminate identity politics, we should not overthink it, either. Identity politics relies on the creation of groups, and then on giving people incentives to adhere to them. If we eliminate group-making and the enticements, we can get rid of identity politics.
The first myth that this book will expose is that identity politics is a grassroots movement, when from the beginning it has been, and continues to be, an elite project. For too long, we have lived with the fairytale that America has organically grown into a nation gripped by victimhood and identitarian division; that it is all the result of legitimate demands by minorities for recognition or restitutions for past wrongs.
The second myth is that identity politics is a response to the demographic change this country has undergone since immigration laws were radically changed in 1965. Another myth that we are told is that to fight these changes is as depraved as it is futile, since by 2040, America will be a minority-majority country anyway.
This book will help to explain that none of these things are true.
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The Plot to Change America by Mike Gonzalez receives praise for its thorough examination of identity politics in America, highlighting how these ideas were intentionally developed to divide citizens. Reviewers commend Gonzalez's research and historical context, with some appreciating his personal perspective as an assimilated Cuban-American. The book is seen as timely and relevant, offering solutions to counter identity politics, and is recommended for those interested in understanding its impact and potential ways to move beyond it.
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ISBN: 9781641772518
Publisher: Encounter Books,USA
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 28 July 2022
Country: United States
Imprint: Encounter Books,USA
Illustration: Illustrations
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 15.0mm
Width: 152.0mm
Height: 228.0mm
Weight: 250g
About the Author
Mike Gonzalez is the Angeles T. Arredondo Senior Fellow on E Pluribus Unum at The Heritage Foundation in Washington, D.C. He spent close to twenty years as a journalist, fifteen of them writing from Europe, Asia, and Latin America. He left journalism to join the Bush administration, where he was a speechwriter for Securities and Exchange Commission chairman Christopher Cox before moving on to the State Department's European Bureau, where he wrote speeches and op-eds. Since 2009, he has been at The Heritage Foundation, where he writes on national identity, diversity, multiculturalism, assimilation, and nationalism, as well as foreign policy in general.
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