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Conned Conservatives and Led-on Liberals: You think the thoughts you think are yours? Think again! Kindle Edition

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"Michael Serrapica's book is a great starting point for the average American today who finds himself confused over what he sees and hears about politics and government. What Serrapica has accomplished is to make sense for his readers the difference between fiction and fact. Conned Conservatives and Led-on Liberals is a book written for citizens by a citizen who cares about his country and wants the public to avoid being misled by partisans and ideologues." Dr. Robert Locander, Political Science Professor, Lone Star College-North Harris – Co-author of How Texas Politics Really Works.

100% of all profits from the sale of this book are being donated to Represent.Us, the nation's largest grassroots anti-corruption campaign, bringing together conservatives and progressives to pass anti-corruption laws across the country.

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B07KZT23B4
Publication date ‏ : ‎ November 29, 2018
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 526 KB
Simultaneous device usage ‏ : ‎ Unlimited
Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
Print length ‏ : ‎ 250 pages

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Michael Serrapica was born in New York City and grew up in The Bronx. He graduated from Aviation High School in Queens, New York with a vocational diploma and Federal Aviation Administration Airframe and Powerplant Mechanic Licenses. His career in aviation spanned 33 years with 2 major airlines in 3 major cities.

Although foregoing formal university, Mr. Serrapica has a diverse background of private school, as well as personal and experiential education in several fields. He has studied acting, advertising, broadcasting, marketing and radio and television performance and production at private schools in New York City. He studied management at Sears Roebuck and Company. He studied arbitration at The National Labor College in Maryland. He has worked as an actor and announcer in radio, television and film. During his airline career he served as a Shop Steward for the International Association of Machinists, and Local Vice-President and International Media Representative for the Transport Workers Union of America. He has also been, and still is, an activist, demonstrator and protester.

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Stephen J. Pierce

This Book Makes You Think, and Think Again

Reviewed in the United States on January 29, 2019

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The title of this book; "Conned Conservatives and Led-On Liberals" was enough for me to pause and wonder; "What am I being fed by media sources and where do my beliefs and positions fit in the political spectrum?"

The author, Michael Serrapica, identifies the most common political parties that have at least, some true effect on the American governmento. Step-by-step, Serrapica identifies each political organizations foundational principles. He then presents the propaganda messaging each political party uses to either support their party and/or to demean the opposing parties. He also identifies what it takes to break away from the hype and zero in on identifying the truth.

So here are my thoughts on the book.
Media manipulation is a broad topic. It comes at us 24/7. Michael Serrapica does a great job of separating the spin, prejudice and alternative facts and connecting them to the propaganda used by each party to try to convince you that their way is the best way of thinking.

This book fits best with the average American that is fed up with so much media crap being shoved down our throats, this book helps you identify the triggers to sensationalism and avoid it's influences.

In conclusion, I found the book to be very thought provoking and that the book presents a lot of avenues for open dialog.

I really enjoyed reading this book.

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Tony A.

Eye Opener to how to think critically about informtion we are presented by the media.

Reviewed in the United States on January 27, 2019

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I am 63 years old and remember a time when the chances that new from TV, Radio or Print was factual and unbiased were much better than they are now. Being like most people now getting news from many sources in sound bites, I have gotten used to not looking at what was being presented with a critical eye.
This book has made me think more critically of what I was being told and asking myself the question “are the facts they are presenting true and unbiased” or am I being manipulated.
Michael has taken a balanced look at the political area, News reporting and Unions (to name a few) areas he has researched. Rather than promoting his ideas by selecting the information that promotes his view he as presented the facts for us to interpret with a subtle humor weaved into the text.

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Kimberly

Skip this

Reviewed in the United States on April 8, 2024

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Horrible book! The author uses confirmation bias at every turn and is not a subtle as he thinks he is about it. Michael Serrapica is a victim of the propaganda that he is trying to warn us about and has no idea. Not worth the read. Move on to all your other options.

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Michael Cacioppo

SMARTNESS & COMMON SENSE--HERE IT IS!

Reviewed in the United States on January 22, 2019

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An in depth study of today's world of politics in the words of the common man. If you have an open mind, you will love this book. If you have a closed mind, don't bother. This is raw honesty about the modern media, the people in it and the people they talk about. The author has many years of life experience in the world of Media, Unionism and Big Business, has done years of research of how politics relates to his life's experience and he shares it in a way that brings a new,basic understanding of those topics. A very special reading experience, hard to put down.

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Jim Kuenzer

An eye (and mind) opening book

Reviewed in the United States on March 10, 2019

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What great insight to viewing our political system: from a safe distance beyond the two parties. Serrapica’s style is in depth and detailed, but approachable and conversational. You may not agree with him, but it’s hard to put his work down. If I were to add anything to this book, it would be a reading list. Serrapica references so many great works, it would be fun (and enlightening) to read more on the subject.

I’m not one for reading lots of political commentary, but this one makes me want to learn even more.

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Monroe J.

Thought control

Reviewed in the United States on January 23, 2019

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Congratulations Mr. Serrapica for opening my mind. For too long I have just accepted what was told to me by the media and never gave it a second thought. Now I question everything I hear and quite frankly, I do not like a lot of what i hear...

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Peter Puleo

A must have !!!!!

Reviewed in the United States on February 3, 2019

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Great read, great concept. Well written,Makes you think. Loved it. Highly recommended !!!.

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Connie (Corcoran) Wilson

Important, Interesting Information for Presidential Election Year 2020

Reviewed in the United States on May 16, 2020

Author Michael Serrapica has presented the reader with 236 pages of intelligent observations about the various propaganda techniques that are used liberally in political campaigns, at a time in our country’s history when we can expect to see each and every one of them used in the soon-to-occur presidential race of 2020. It’s a transformative, catastrophic time in history with the pandemic in full bloom, which is morphing political campaigns from the old-style large gatherings and hand-shaking events into wars waged on television, radio and the Internet.

As Michael notes (p 176) “If you want success (in politics), you want to keep creating innovative and superior techniques.” It will be interesting to see what new techniques and innovative approaches are created to try to unseat Donald J. Trump as President of the United States---or to be used in any other down-ballot races abroad in the land in 2020---while the coronavirus transforms the traditions of campaigning.

Michael’s point-of-view? “The plutocrats are the ruling parties, with their contributions and influence, ( and they) have relegated our two-party system to irrelevance” (p. 109).

I understand the author’s assertion that our two-party system feels doomed---- unless we, the people can seize control. Is the election of 2020 the election where carpe diem could prevail and we might re- take command of our own destinies? We, as a people, have a great incentive to do so, with 87,991 dead citizens and a cratered economy bearing mute testimony to the fall-out from the administrative incompetence of the Donald J. Trump campaign that wrested control of, [seemingly], all branches of government (executive, legislative and judicial) in 2016. Never in history has our Constitution been so sorely tested, since, perhaps, the Civil War years or the Great Depression, making this book very timely in its observations about how candidates seize power.

Michael delves into the history of movements like the Bonus Army and the Occupy Army, both interesting and informative back-of-the-book addendums. In Chapter 4, Michael outlines the propaganda techniques Ad Hominem, Ad Nauseam, Appeal to fear and prejudice, disinformation, labeling or name-calling, flag waving, and lying and deception. You'll recognize them all after reading this book and we'll all be better off for that.

As a working journalist since 1956 (as a sixth grader!), I recognized the terms and how they work in propaganda. It is Michael’s goal to make the average citizen more aware of the use of such propaganda techniques so that we all become critical thinkers and wise voters. As the moral of my own newest book BEE GONE put it, quoting Obama, “Elections have consequences. Choose wisely.”

Meanwhile, enjoy Michael Serrapica’s informative, conversational book on how campaigns try to influence us, so that you become that critical thinker and wise voter.

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