The American working class is trapped in an unfair, rigged game of monkey-in-the-middle that keeps them ever chasing the dream of upward socio-economic mobility. Only by waking to the reality of economic gamesmanship and political rhetoric can we understand the truth and thus recapture the fairness and freedom of the American spirit of democracy.

The author examines some of the key economic and political issues of our time and challenges Americans to use their logic and intuition to see through the illusions that bind us to the status quo. Are Americans enslaved by economic and political marketing mechanisms that evolved over the past 250 years? Has a stupefied public been convinced that the status quo is fair and equitable? Does the Constitution protect us from the profiteers who exploit the American working class? Or, as a nation, can we do better?