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    Flyover Nation: You Can't Run a Country You've Never Been To

    Written by Dana Loesch

    Narrated by Teri Schnaubelt

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    About this audiobook

    Blaze TV and top radio host Dana Loesch explains that the biggest political problem today is that the people who run this country have no idea what life is really like for ordinary Americans. In fact, they have contempt for the very people they claim to represent.

    When the owners of a small pizza parlor in Indiana were asked by the local press whether they would ever cater a gay wedding, they said no, citing their personal religious beliefs. The internet responded with immediate outrage, posting death threats and vicious online reviews, and forcing them to shut down. All for expressing a personal opinion rooted in faith, in response to a completely hypothetical question. A new front in the culture war had been opened.

    When the owners of the pizza parlor told Dana Loesch on a Blaze TV interview that they might never reopen, Loesch started a fundraising campaign. Hundreds of thousands of dollars quickly poured in to support them. The people donating weren't taking a stand against gay rights; they just believed that a random mom-and-pop shop shouldn't be run out of business because media and political elites on both coasts caricature and vilify rural Americans.

    Most of the problems with our country today can be traced to a very simple cause-the growing disconnect between the government and media elites and the rest of us, the old-fashioned, hard-working, God-fearing Americans who are proud to live in middle America. As Loesch explains, too many people getting on their high horse about Wal-Mart have never shopped in one. Protesters outraged at small town cops have never been helped by one. Environmentalists who claim to want to protect the spotted owl have never been in the woods with one. Atheists who attack committed Christians have never sat in a pew with one.

    Loesch doesn't take aims solely at the Democrats; some Republicans in Congress and on the presidential campaign trail have also forgotten what life is like for the people back home. While these so-called leaders may have forgotten the people in coal towns and farming communities, the voters in those communities haven't forgotten Washington's betrayals. And it will show in 2016.

    As one of the most powerful and recognizable voices on talk radio today, Dana Loesch is leading a revolution of America's new Silent Majority.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBrilliance Audio
    Release dateJun 21, 2016
    ISBN9781511375252
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    Reviews for Flyover Nation

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    • 5/5
      A honest look at the people and politics of our nation.
    • 5/5
      I absolutely enjoyed it audio book, I enjoy listening to Dana's talk show, and was looking forward to hearing this book, I have spent a lot of time in the past trucking thru in and around the mid-west, and now live on the west coast, and listening to this book, was such a reminder of what I miss about fly over nation.
    • 2/5
      If the point is to persuade this book just doesn't work. If the point is to preach to the choir, it is enjoyable. Even if I agree with most of the author's meta-points, the author's way of presenting them gets in the way of being persuasive.
    • 5/5
      Loesch has hit a grand slam with this book which talks intelligently
      about numerous conservative issues in a plain-spoken manner. Her
      thesis is pretty much summed up in the book's title and is that the
      elites on both coasts in their Hollywood mansions, network studios,
      and Washington D.C.steakhouses are living in a different universe from ordinary Americans. Typified by Obama's remarks about Americans in
      flyover country bitterly clinging to guns and religion and Hillary's
      mocking dismissal of them as deplorables, the elites simply don't get
      ordinary folks. They don't know what it's like to shop at Walmart, to
      budget, to raise kids, to struggle to earn a living when all the jobs in
      coal country are being regulated out of existence.

      But political diatribes on how disconnected Washington is from We, The People, are a dime a dozen on the bookshelves. What Loesch does
      brilliantly here is she tells her own personal story of growing up in a
      poor farming area, of being dragged to the city for her mother's job,
      and of missing the family, the community, the freedom to roam
      outdoors in her grandparents' small town. This is not just an essay for political junkies. It's a coming of age story about learning lessons about what's important and what's valued.

      Agree or disagree with Loesch's positions, you can't help but gain a stronger understanding of why and how her experience and her faith helped her come to her conclusions.

      And it's a timely piece of writing too as we are in a time when our political elites are tone deaf to our needs our wishes. You can't just regulate industries out of existence and think it's okay for the families who are left without a livelihood.

      Loesch even ties it all in to Darryl Dixon in the Walking Dead as an example of someone from flyover country who could survive anything. There's a lot in this book and Loesch tackles a lot of current hit button issues. The book is without question well worth reading and probably has not received one tenth of the attention it deserves.