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A review by cosmicbookworm
Justice Is Coming: How Progressives Are Going to Take Over the Country and America Is Going to Love It by Cenk Uygur
Thank you to NetGalley, St Martin’s Press, and Cenk Uygur for an opportunity to review an ARC of the audiobook. “Justice Is Coming” is an honest look at the destructive corruption of our political system. It is clear, concise, and well-written and presented with passion. Cenk Uyghur reveals corruption in government and the media and how both are bent in favor of corporations and not the common good. We repeatedly see demonstrations of the concept of “It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on his not understanding it.” (Upton Sinclair) and repeatedly see why it is important to follow the money. “In a system built on private financing of politicians, you will always have politicians serving private interests.” Cenk makes the case that America is much more progressive than we are being told, but that the press (from Fox News to MSNBC) agree that the progressives must not be allowed to win. At the point in time when my attention starts to wain, and I’m just about ready to give up, we learn that while the average age of a person in America is 38, the average age of a CNN viewer is 64 and the average age of a Fox or MSNBC viewer is 68. Cenk contends that while the mainstream media is the “marketing arm for corporate rule” we have a rising generation of people who no longer listen to the political propaganda that is stacked against us.