Ray's Reading List
Activism Inc
by Dana R. Fisher
This book explores the bizarre, dystopian world of paid political field work and explains how Democrats failed to organize two entire generations of Americans.
The number one problem facing Democrats today is trying to overcome 20+ years of alienating the working class through corrupt, for-profit, outsourcing companies. America's backslide into relying solely on charisma to get elected can be closely linked to aristrocratic Democrats outsourcing all of their voter contact activity to for-profit, out-of-state political field work companies.
For the many people who have gotten caught up in this corrupt system and are wondering what happened to them, this book will help you regain your sanity.
Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World
by Anand Giridharadas
This book is perhaps my favorite work of non-fiction I've ever read and does a brilliant job of explaining the phoniness that our society is still struggling with today. This work also explains a term I now call "money-worshipping", where modern society has trended towards worshipping money and caring very little about ethics or humanity.
With a special focus on the Clintons' foundation, Giridharadas explores the disingenuous tendency for Americans to get rich off of exploitative industries and unethical business practices, but then to inevitably age into pretending to try to help solve the very problems that they themselves have created and perpetuated.
Caste
by Isabel Wilkerson
This particular book is a brutal and incredibly important read that discusses America's history of racism, and the difficulty Americans face when trying to climb the social ladder.
Thinking of America as a caste system is, in my opinion, the best way to analyze our nation. The amount of hard truths detailed in this book make it and incredibly compelling and uncomfortable read, but an important one. If Americans were taught this history, I think our country would be a much greater place.
Ray Jarosz
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