We The People... Are Bad At This

di Robert Bates (Autore)

Greater Intent, LLC, 2026

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice. You care about something real: safer communities, better schools, economic opportunity, freedom, fairness, a future that feels less fragile. Someone offers a plan. The promise sounds convincing. You give it your support. Then the results arrive—and somehow the original promise becomes harder to find. In We the People… Are Bad at This, Robert Bates explores how political promises win our confidence, how institutions respond when reality becomes inconvenient, and why reconsidering a policy can feel like betraying something we value. Drawing on public records, research, and cases across political parties and national borders, he follows ambitious plans from the podium to the receipt: what was promised, what happened, who benefited, and where the costs went. From tax cuts and high-speed rail to school accountability, homelessness, public-health crises, and corporate incentives, Bates examines the gap between intentions and outcomes with patient analysis, dry humor, and respect for the complexity of governing. Along the way, he asks what distinguishes genuine institutional learning from an increasingly sophisticated explanation of failure. The book offers a practical way to judge public choices while keeping sight of what matters to us. How is a proposed method supposed to work? What has the institution already demonstrated? What evidence should make us change course? And can we withdraw support from a failing method while preserving the hope that made us support it? Democracy gives us the power to choose. Getting better at it means learning how to reconsider.

• Autore: Robert Bates
• Durata in (hh:mm:ss): 11:01:57
• Anno edizione: 2026
• Editore: Greater Intent, LLC
• Lingua: Inglese
• EAN: 9780466453688