Recommendations For Waking Up From The American Nightmare (Business Voyages)

Recommendations For Waking Up From The American Nightmare is an idealistic fantasy showing how to attack the root causes of current economic troubles in the US using a dialectical democratic case method discussion process used by the author 35 years as a business professor.

Stapleton is convinced the root cause of American economic troubles is political, economic, religious and social polarization among US voters who since 1980 have voted into office polarized politicians out to feather their own nests and promote idiosyncratic economic interests, beliefs, values, dogmas, doctrines and ideologies.

Polarized politicians since 1980 voted for or against legislation based on their predetermined economic interests, ideologies, dogmas and doctrines, not the facts of cases, resulting in the deadlocked dysfunctional government we have today.

Recommendations For Waking Up From the American Nightmare advocates more dialectical democratic case method discussions among people from all walks of life in more and more Town Hall Meetings to foster more discussion of facts of cases and their logical solutions, hopefully resulting in more voters concerned about the facts of cases and inducing logical conclusions, resulting in the election of like-minded politicians voting to do the right thing for we the people based on the facts of cases, not predetermined idiosyncratic ideologies, economic interests, beliefs, values, dogmas and doctrines.

The book describes and explains the recommended dialectical democratic case method process and presents writings about the economy the author produced in the last two years, including his recommendations or managing the US economy in the short and long run, based on the facts of the case since 1980.

The author is convinced Republican neoconservative ideologies inflicted on the US economy since 1980 are major causes of the economic problems we have today; and, while he is not overly impressed with the Obama administration since 2009 he thinks this administration has done more good than harm.

The author recommends reelecting the Obama administration to keep the current momentum going, being convinced they have charted and piloted a better course than Republican neoconservatives, such as Reagan, Bush II, Romney and Ryan.

The author thinks electing Romney-Ryan would be disastrous leading to a federal debt explosion within three years, similar to the debt explosion the US experienced when Bush II started bombing Iraq in 2003, a debt explosion possibly causing this time debt defaults and/or repudiations within ten years, creating chaos and abject depression, possibly culminating over time in a civil war between the US upper class and the US lower class, the middle class by then having been largely eliminated, in a war reminiscent of the French Revolution of 1789 and the Spanish Civil War of 1936.

The author recommends amending the US Constitution as soon as possible to eradicate Citizens United of 2010, the absurd and abominable 5-4 Supreme Court case in which five predetermined Republican judges ruled corporations are people with free speech, entitled to spend as much money as they wish buying propaganda in mainstream media to influence federal elections in their favor, at the expense of we the people.

The author recommends the proposed United States Voters' Rights Amendment (USVRA) on the Internet, asking readers to sign up as a supporter to get in the habit of doing democratic things to help us wake up from the American Nightmare.