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Monday Oct 9, 2006

Blogger Reviews Keep Coming In

Lean Left was a little worried at first, but eventually came to love Wait! Don't Move To Canada!:

...the promo material that came with my review copy read as if this was going to be another stupid framing book. Whatever the academic merits of the "framing" concept, in practice, political books dealing with "re-framing" are almost exclusively about magical thinking. If only the left would use different frames, the thinking seems to go, then opposition will be left flummoxed and impotent, everyone will just fall in line and their will be universal health care, a sane foreign policy, civil rights, and ponies for all.

This, fortunately, is not one of those books.

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The real strength of the book is its central notion: that liberalism must be vocally defended if the Democrats are to have any long term success. In a world of supposedly non-ideological "netroots" and magical thinking hidden behind "frames," it is refreshing to see a political book that celebrates the importance of ideas and the importance of defending and advancing those ideas. Wait! Don’t Move to Canada! might be disguised as a book on political tactics, but it is really a full throated defense of liberalism and the importance of liberal ideals to the country.

And Occasional Ravings of a Liberal Patriot offers proof that Wait! Don't Move To Canada! can actually empower you:

What I like about this book is you can get through it in a couple of evenings. It's well written, packed with good information, and tells you how to actually start making a difference rather than merely trying to motivate you. As an example, this blog here that you're reading has been inspired, in part, by the book (even though I started it before the book came out-the book has inspired me to keep going).
Posted by Bill Scher on Oct 9, 2006 email post email Spotlight / / You are in Wait! Don't Move To Canada!
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