{"product_id":"not-here-why-american-democracy-is-eroding-and-how-canada-can-protect-itself-9781668012437","title":"Not Here: Why American Democracy Is Eroding and How Canada Can Protect Itself","description":"\u003cb\u003eWhat does it mean to live beside an eroding democracy? As this powerful and timely book argues, that is the question that will shape the next generation of Canadian politics.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAs a congressional speechwriter in the United States, Rob Goodman watched firsthand as a rising authoritarian movement disenfranchised voters, sabotaged institutions, and made a coup thinkable for the first time in living memory. Now, as a political theorist who makes his home in Canada, he has an urgent warning for his adopted country: The same forces that have upended democracy in America and around the world are on the move in Canada, too. But Canada can protect its democracy by drawing on a set of political, cultural, and historical resources that are distinctly of this place. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eNot Here\u003c\/i\u003e, Goodman outlines four such resources. First, the rejection of the dangerous idea of one \"real\" Canadian people. Second, the refusal of political charisma and founder-worship. Third, a relatively strong social safety net that empowers neighbours to see one another as equals. And fourth, Canada's longstanding search for independence from the great power with which it shares a continent. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eToday, that great power is a democracy in decline, and so asserting differences from the United States matters in this generation in a way that it has rarely mattered before. Canadian difference is not a curiosity, a luxury good, or a vanity item: it is a democratic immune system. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eLaying bare the historical roots of contemporary politics, and making an urgent case for action, \u003ci\u003eNot Here\u003c\/i\u003e is a roadmap for safeguarding a democracy under unprecedented threat.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Simon \u0026amp; Schuster\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/15\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781668012437\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 272","brand":"Rob Goodman","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42917371576501,"sku":"9781668012437","price":24.64,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_47374ada-9b22-43db-93c5-40dd5089b0a9.jpg?v=1687283477","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/not-here-why-american-democracy-is-eroding-and-how-canada-can-protect-itself-9781668012437","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}