Review of The Solution is Political Revolution

[Tristan Outhier]

[Following is a volunteer review of "The Solution is Political Revolution" by Jillion R Rising.]

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3 out of 5 stars

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In The Solution is Political Revolution author Jillion R. Rising examines the rising debt of the American government. Rising is a Midwestern construction business owner who offers a critique of the government through the perspective of a blue-collar citizen. The author investigates where the average full-time employee's money goes when it is invested in mortgages, retirement accounts and taxes.

Rising scrutinizes the processes of the Federal Reserve, Wall Street, the commercial banking system, and the U.S. Treasury Department. In doing so, the author shows how the government sustains itself by creating perpetual debt in a fiat monetary system. The author posits that the American government is going broke and that drastic changes need to be made in order for the U.S. to not go into default and be forced to rely on the International Monetary Fund and switching to a global monetary system to bail them out.

Rising offers various ideas on how to make the government, Wall Street, and the Federal Reserve be held accountable for their actions and change their ways. However, the true value of this book lies not in the solutions the author puts forward. Rising opens up the arena for the citizens to be inspired to come up with their own ideas and resolutions. This is the whole point of the book: the citizens must take back their power. Ultimately, Rising states the country must move from a representative democracy to a real democracy, allowing the people to control what the bureaucrats in D.C. do. Rising provides an accessible examination of the U.S. monetary system.

This book was well-organized, which made it fairly easy to follow an intricately complicated topic. Rising successfully demonstrates how American citizens are pitted against each other with the false dichotomy of the Democrat and Republican parties.

While Rising successfully makes this topic digestible to the average Joe, the arguments put forth in this book do not have much substance. Rising refers to using “logic” several times, even naming the proposed new political party the Logician Party. Unfortunately, the author fails to use any actual logical arguments. Rather, Rising offers observations of how the government has handled certain economic situations throughout the last century and speculates conclusions. Also, several of the solutions offered by Rising are rather difficult to swallow, one being eliminating Social Security and forgiving the debt the government owes to it's citizens. Rising does not explain how people who don't own retirement accounts are supposed to survive once they have retired. Putting these qualms aside, the book still gives a solid starting point for tackling the daunting deception and collusion in Washington DC, Wall Street, and the Treasury Department. I also agree with several of the conclusions the author makes, particularly that the media is being used as a tool for fear-mongering. For these reasons, I rate this book a three out of five. This book is geared toward the average American citizen who is interested in political science and economics.

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