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Managing Editor + Contributor
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Steven Jonas, MD, MPH is a Professor of Preventive Medicine
at Stony Brook University (NY) and author/co-author/editor of 30 books. In his book The New Americanism (1992, available at www.amazon.com),
Dr. Jonas presented his proposal for that “new vision and mission” for the
Democratic Party that so many, for so many years, have been urging it to find.
A new vision and mission were obviously needed with increasing urgency as with
increasing speed and determination the Georgites were driving our nation
towards frank theocratic fascism. In this book Dr. Jonas found that vision and mission in the Declaration
of Independence and the Constitution. In Barack Obama the Democratic
Party hopefully has found an effective new voice to lead the nation back to the
re-establishment of Constitutional Democracy in 2009 and beyond. President Obama represents a clear
break with the policies of the Democratic Leadership Council which, over the
past 30 years, had driven the Democratic Party, and the nation along with it,
nearly into the ground. Although
they do seem to be moving at a somewhat leisurely pace, Dr. Jonas is hopeful
that the Obama Administration has adopted the new vision and mission advocated
by him too.
Dr. Jonas is also the author of The 15% Solution: A Political History of American Fascism, 2001-2022. Under
the pseudonym "Jonathan Westminster" this book was originally
published in 1996. It was republished with a New Introduction in 2004. (Both versions are available on Amazon.)
Under Georgite rule, major elements of the “fictional non-fiction” scenario of
this work of “future history,” most unfortunately, became all too real.
Fortunately the book’s scenario departs from the reality that the 2008 election
delivered. However, the similarities between, for example, Sarah Palin, who
will hardly be disappearing from the national political scene anytime soon, and
the book’s fictional first fascist President, Jefferson Davis Hague, are all
too real. With continuing Republican efforts to make things as bad as they can
for the Obama Administration, lead by Dick Cheney, “Beckoning Savagely
O’RHannibaugh,”, and Newt Gingrich, the threat of a fascist future for our
nation has hardly disappeared.
The 2004 edition of “The 15%” is available at www.barnesandnoble.com and www.xlibris.com. Both versions are available at www.amazon.com.
Dr. Jonas is also a regular Columnist for the webmagazine BuzzFlash; a
Featured Writer for Dandelion
Salad; a Columnist for The Greanville
POST; a Contributor to TheHarderStuff
newsletter; a Contributor to The
Planetary Movement; and a Contributing Columnist for the Project for the Old American Century, POAC.
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