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==General critique of US politics==

==General critique of US politics==

*This volume moves beyond its criticisms of the Bush administration to diagnose the ailing condition of America as a participatory democracy — low voter turnout, rampant voter cynicism, an often ill-informed electorate, political campaigns dominated by 30-second television ads, and an increasingly conglomerate-controlled media landscape ... [http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/22/books/22kaku.html?ex=1186718400&en=4aafb1641989b3cc&ei=5070]

*This volume moves beyond its criticisms of the Bush administration to diagnose the ailing condition of America as a participatory democracy — low voter turnout, rampant voter cynicism, an often ill-informed electorate, political campaigns dominated by 30-second television ads, and an increasingly conglomerate-controlled media landscape ... [https://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/22/books/22kaku.html?ex=1186718400&en=4aafb1641989b3cc&ei=5070]

*The book also critiques the growing occurrence of American citizens being turned away from world events as a result of extremely minor events (specifically, the death of Anna Nicole Smith) as an analogy to a person's immune system. Gore uses the immune system to describe how when the American continuously hears too much of a negative thing, such as the goings-on in Iraq, which Gore equates to the constant exposure of a bodily sickness the immune system, it can cause the people to overreact to a small occurrence such as the death of a celebrity, which Gore equates to the immune system collapsing in on itself when an easily combatible disease has not been immunized by the body.

*The book also critiques the growing occurrence of American citizens being turned away from world events as a result of extremely minor events (specifically, the death of Anna Nicole Smith) as an analogy to a person's immune system. Gore uses the immune system to describe how when the American continuously hears too much of a negative thing, such as the goings-on in Iraq, which Gore equates to the constant exposure of a bodily sickness the immune system, it can cause the people to overreact to a small occurrence such as the death of a celebrity, which Gore equates to the immune system collapsing in on itself when an easily combatible disease has not been immunized by the body.

==External links==

==External links==

*[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9JE48XHKG64 Video of Al Gore blasting George H. W. Bush for ignoring Iraq's ties to terrorism]

*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9JE48XHKG64 Video of Al Gore blasting George H. W. Bush for ignoring Iraq's ties to terrorism]

*[http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/story?id=3192596&page=1 Gore's 'Assault on Reason' an Assault on Bush] - ABC News

*[http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/story?id=3192596&page=1 Gore's 'Assault on Reason' an Assault on Bush] - ABC News

[[Category:Political Books]]

[[Category:Political Books]]