Talking politics?
Subtitle: what you need to know before opening your mouth
By: Sheila Suess Kennedy
Edition: First paperback edition.
Series: Georgetown shorts
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 37
ISBN-13: 9781626163782
Subjects: Politics and government
Description: In today's superheated partisan climate, honest, reasoned, and informed political debates are too rare. Political spin and even demonizing opponents with distortions or outright lies are commonplace from Washington to the local city council. The hyper-partisan rhetoric and the public's spotty knowledge about our political system undermine informed responses to these debates. This digital short by Sheila Suess Kennedy identifies some of the most common areas of confusion and/or misunderstanding about our political system--distortions of accepted history, constitutional law, economics, and/or science--to help readers distinguish between facts that have been documented and agreed to by responsible people of all ideological perspectives, and the different conclusions and interpretations that may be drawn from those facts. This work aims to create a more informed electorate and to better ground debates in fact, from Capitol Hill to the family dinner table.
Table of contents: title: What everyone should know about the constitution and American legal system; title: What everyone should know about the American economic system; title: What everyone should know about science; title: What everyone should know about politics.