Plain Truth

by John Tait

Plain Truth is a witty and hard hitting book that examines the consequences of government which denies America's origins as a Western nation guided by Christian principles. The importance of... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1606475584
• ISBN13: 9781606475584
• Release Date: July 2008
• Publisher: Xulon Press
• Length: 64 Pages
• Weight: 0.17 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.1" x 5.0" x 8.0"

Customer Reviews

Plain Truth By John Tait

"Plain Truth_ by John Tait is the best, most succinct exposition of the state of the American government that is in print today. What other authors have tried to do in hundreds of pages, John Tait has done in a few dozen. A single evening (two, at most) spent reading _Plain Truth_ will do more to open one's mind than will months of reading several books by authors who are bedazzled by their own rhetoric, rather than being driven by urgency. Everyone who is seriously concerned about their future should read John Tait's _Plain Truth_." -Winston Smith (Co-Host of The Political Cesspool)

By John Young

by John Young John Tait has a remarkable ability to encapsulate complex issues, complete with appropriate value judgments, in compact sentences that spring off the page. He begins his indictment of the status quo in Plain Truth eloguently: "American government, in its natural state, served as Western civilization's crowning achievement; in it's current state, it is our most devastating failure. the former represents an entity comprised of great men dedicated to protecting and preserving culture; the latter is made up of traitors intent on its destruction. ... What was once an indispensable friend has become our most dangerous foe."(pg. 7) Tait reveres America's founding fathers, and is thus a strong advocate of both Constitutional Republicanism and representative government. Noting that despite the best intentions of our founding fathers, the ship of state has sailed far off course, he offers an explanation that echoes many of the sentiments expressed in Western Voices podcasts, though more succinctly: "As a district becomes more diverse, its representative must fulfill expectations of people from different cultures and with contradictory expectations. Those of a particular background will ask for special privileges. However, special privileges for one group always come at the expense of another. As the groups grow more substantial in both size and number, the representative's job will become increasingly more difficult. A politician expected to address the concerns of his constituents will find the task impossible."(pg. 10) This explanation certainly deals factually with the essential contradiction between multiculturalism and freedom as our founders understood it because, as John Tait describes: "Being that a nation contains many more people than a simple gathering, it is necessary for a group of people to grant themselves representation through one or more people. Expectations of those representatives will be similar if members of the group share a common history, heritage, and culture. In that situation, every man will have a voice." John Tait's explanation is elegant, and describes why many political movements that claim to be motivated by liberty continue to fail at meeting their ostensible objectives while embracing multiculturalism. Multiculturalism and liberty are mutually exclusive realities. At the same time, this particular explanation fails to adequately unravel the chicken-and-egg issue surrounding how the United States -- designed from the beginning as a unified culture -- became "multicultural" and "diverse." Clearly, before anyone ever heard the diversity mantra, forces were at work within our unicultural country that sought to undermine our culture. So while uniculturalism is a prerequisite of liberty, it is not ipso facto a guarantor of liberty. Tait has a wide perspective, and this fact doesn't escape his notice. Tracing back, he cites the Woodrow Wilson administration as the true "beginning of the end" of l