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4.15 AVERAGE
4.15 AVERAGE
Big fan of Secretary Mayor Pete, but this one just feels like it was rushed out the door a little too quickly. . .
Super fast audiobook - it’s four hours long. All about the erosion of trust on institutions, climate change, disinformation, foreign interference into elections, etc. Thesis is supported through and this was a simple fast audiobook to listen to especially after listening to a 45 hour long Sylvia Plath audiobook.
Hoping he runs again. Our world needs more people like pretty Pete and Chasten.
Trust:America's Best Chance
by Pete Buttigieg
2020
W.W. Norton & Co.
4.0 / 5.0
Former Mayor of South Bend, Indiana and Democratic presidential candidate sees an erosion of trust as part of the reason for the compromised integrity in the USA.
In the overview, Buttigieg explains why trust is so important for us to move forward, and is what keeps us divided.
Buttigieg shares lessons he learned about trust, while serving in the military, and how the tRump Administration has eroded so much of our government and our trust in each other.
"Presidents after the tRump era will need to return to the basics when it comes to trust and accountability."
"BY 2020, each of the most important means available to the WH for building trust- transparency, responsibility, vulnerability, truth- telling, predictability, reciprocity- had been not just abandoned but torched."
Buttigieg brings some important issues and questions to light, and I do believe our ability to trust others has eroded because if the supporters of tRump, following his inciting and baiting.
I will finish, with this quote, that says it all.....
(Fox News. Roger) "Ailes recognized what the purveyors of conspiracy theories often do: that by playing to an audiences distrust of others, you can more easily secure their trust in you. Getting people to trust you through consistent, hard-won credibility is difficult and time consuming. But a shortcut to gaining trust is simply ask people to join you in distrusting someone else.....the lucrative logic of opinion media is that whomever you do capture in their way, will become less and less willing to hear outside voices, and more and more dependent on yours."
by Pete Buttigieg
2020
W.W. Norton & Co.
4.0 / 5.0
Former Mayor of South Bend, Indiana and Democratic presidential candidate sees an erosion of trust as part of the reason for the compromised integrity in the USA.
In the overview, Buttigieg explains why trust is so important for us to move forward, and is what keeps us divided.
Buttigieg shares lessons he learned about trust, while serving in the military, and how the tRump Administration has eroded so much of our government and our trust in each other.
"Presidents after the tRump era will need to return to the basics when it comes to trust and accountability."
"BY 2020, each of the most important means available to the WH for building trust- transparency, responsibility, vulnerability, truth- telling, predictability, reciprocity- had been not just abandoned but torched."
Buttigieg brings some important issues and questions to light, and I do believe our ability to trust others has eroded because if the supporters of tRump, following his inciting and baiting.
I will finish, with this quote, that says it all.....
(Fox News. Roger) "Ailes recognized what the purveyors of conspiracy theories often do: that by playing to an audiences distrust of others, you can more easily secure their trust in you. Getting people to trust you through consistent, hard-won credibility is difficult and time consuming. But a shortcut to gaining trust is simply ask people to join you in distrusting someone else.....the lucrative logic of opinion media is that whomever you do capture in their way, will become less and less willing to hear outside voices, and more and more dependent on yours."
Pete’s weaving of stories that build trust amongst people, institutions, and the “project” of America are well sewn.
There are some clear action items for a potential Biden administration as well. Such items include a series of Constitutional amendments (Equal Rights, decoupling money from politics, and abolishing the electoral college) and policy-related steps (re-entry in the Paris Agreement, building NATO ties, & providing much-needed financing to BIPOC communities to build generational wealth through home ownership).
THESE steps, in tandem, offer a realistic way to build trust and become more “trusty.”
Also- it’s a quick read and easily digestible for even the least policy-minded folk.
There are some clear action items for a potential Biden administration as well. Such items include a series of Constitutional amendments (Equal Rights, decoupling money from politics, and abolishing the electoral college) and policy-related steps (re-entry in the Paris Agreement, building NATO ties, & providing much-needed financing to BIPOC communities to build generational wealth through home ownership).
THESE steps, in tandem, offer a realistic way to build trust and become more “trusty.”
Also- it’s a quick read and easily digestible for even the least policy-minded folk.
His other book is better, BUT this man will make an unbelievable President one day and I can’t wait to vote for him again. He summed up why people support Trump with such passion and carefully broke down how to overcome the lack of trust in society. A great read given the current atmosphere
The book felt incomplete and rushed. It took me a long time to finish because I kept getting distracted. I greatly enjoyed Shortest Way Home, but this one not as much.
Timely and important, this is a contemplation on the role of trust in our local, national, and global relationships. It is also a caution before we continue any further down this road of inability to trust our institutions and each other.
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Interesting short little book by Mayor Pete on, well, trust, as a concept and his arguments that it is the foundation of a lot of the transactions of day-to-day life and is necessary for people to feel safe, and productive, and how when it's abused or non-existent, it's hard to live a prosperous life. I also enjoyed the diversions hear and there about the actual processes that erode or destroy trust (the whole social media disinformation campaigns about COVID, vaccines, etc., was pretty fascinating). If nothing else, it prompts deeper thinking about how someone can evaluate their own level of trust in other people, systems, processes, etc., as well as their own personal trustworthiness.