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A NEW AMERICAN COMMON SENSE

MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN FOR THE VERY FIRST TIME

by Gary Gil-Schor

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A Future That Doesn't Totally Suck.

America has always had two stories running simultaneously: the one printed on the brochure, and the one lived by everyone the brochure was never meant for. This book is about both—and about what happens when you refuse to pretend they're the same story.

It is part history, part prophecy, part political philosophy, and part intervention. It takes the founding myths of the United States, holds them up to a very bright light, and does not look away from what becomes visible.

The diagnosis is unflinching. But this book doesn't stop at the wound. It keeps going—past the rage, past the grief, past the exhaustion—to the thing that's harder to write than outrage: a concrete, workable, radical vision for what comes next.

Not a pep talk. Not a bumper sticker. A blueprint. If you're done being lied to—and ready to start building something worth believing in—this is your book.

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HONEST HISTORY

This book contains the history they didn't teach you—not because they forgot, but because they needed you to believe something else. The scalp bounties paid by colonial governments for Native bodies. The slave patrols of 1704 South Carolina that became American policing. The 374 treaties signed with Indigenous nations and broken within years. The 1953 coup in Iran because a democratically elected prime minister thought his country's oil should benefit his people. The Jakarta Method, exported worldwide as a franchise model for genocide. The redlining maps that still determine who breathes clean air and who chokes on refinery smoke. The COINTELPRO files showing the FBI worked overtime to prevent a Black "messiah"—and the bullet that killed Fred Hampton while he slept. The MKULTRA experiments where citizens seeking help were erased by electroshock. The whistleblowers imprisoned for telling the truth. The children gunned down in classrooms while "good guys with guns" stood outside. The mothers shot through car windows during school drop-off. All of it documented. All of it denied. All of it still running, still extracting, still killing—just with better branding and a flag draped over the machinery. This book is what happens when you stop letting them tell the story.

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THE PRESSING PROBLEM

The math is simple and devastating: AI agents cost $25,000 to deploy. A junior professional costs $60,000 plus benefits. The spreadsheet doesn't blink. Goldman Sachs says 300 million jobs disappear by 2030. Microsoft's AI chief says most white-collar tasks vanish within 18 months. Paralegals, analysts, customer service, journalists—all on the chopping block. We told factory workers to learn to code. Now coders are learning they're next. This isn't disruption. It's the market working exactly as designed, treating human beings as line items to be optimized out of existence. The only question left is what we build to catch them when they fall.

  • Universal basic income funded by automation dividends — if the machines took your job, they owe you a cut
  • Antitrust enforcement that treats monopoly platforms like the public utilities they've already become
  • Right to meaningful work — or dignified support when the market decides you're no longer useful
  • Democratic governance of AI deployment, because "move fast and break things" has broken enough things

This is nothing less than a revolutionary operating manual for a nation rebuilt on justice, not profit.

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RECIPROCAL DEMOCRACY

The path we're on leads straight to techno-feudalism. A handful of tech bros hold all the power. They own the platforms you use, the algorithms that shape your reality, and the AI that replaced your job. Your data is harvested and used to make you obsolete. You don't own things anymore; you subscribe to them. Democracy becomes decorative when five men control the infrastructure of civilization.

This isn't speculation. This book names the endgame—and then proposes an exit ramp: Reciprocal Democracy. It’s a framework assembled from durable political wisdom: the Haudenosaunee principle of Seven Generations thinking, consensus decision-making, restorative justice, Thomas Paine’s Agrarian Justice, and European Social Democracy—which proves you can have markets, individual rights, and a floor below which no one falls. One clarification: Democratic Socialism is not a command economy. It is capitalism with guardrails—the same capitalism that built highways, rural electrification, and the internet. The market still runs. What disappears is the fiction that an unregulated market self-corrects toward human welfare.

Reciprocal Democracy proposes a civilization that keeps its promises—not to shareholders, but to the people living in it, and to those who come after..

The author boldly suggests that it would be better to have real liberty and justice for all, rather than the current system that only pays lip service to those ideals.
Taking the land or resources of other countries is wrong. It’s called stealing.
This book asks the question almost no one seems to know how to answer: “If robots do all the work, take all of our jobs, who buys the crap the robots make and with what money?”

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About Gary Gil-Schor

Portrait of author Gary Gil-Schor

Born on Dorothy Parker's birthday—which explains the built-in allergy to bullshit and the God-given ability to disembowel the high and mighty using only a noun, a verb, and one precisely placed adjective.

Author of Make America Great for the Very First Time. Next book already in progress and already angry.

Grew up on comic books, reached adulthood, and discovered the world overrun with villains and critically short on heroes. Has not forgiven it for that.

Gil-Schor writes in a register refusing to choose between laughter and moral indictment—because why carry one weapon when you can carry both? His sentences move fast, hit hard, and carry the weight of someone who actually believes in things: fundamental right and wrong, liberty and justice that applies to everyone, and the radical notion that all sentient beings deserve dignity.

He learned early that truth-telling lands hardest when simultaneously hilarious and devastating—that absurdity is not a condition to endure but a target to outmaneuver. His voice runs multiple frequencies: the stand-up comic with impeccable timing, the journalist who will not look away from human cost, the advocate insisting systems can change because they are human inventions, not laws of physics.

The remedy he proposes is reciprocal democracy—a decentralized, humanistic governance model built on restorative justice and seven-generations thinking, with hard ceilings on hoarded wealth. Billionaires need not apply.

He is the kind of writer who hands you a torch and a map in the same breath—and genuinely believes, against all available evidence, that you'll know what to do with both.

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