Why Are Millions of Americans Stuck in a Delusional Reality?
The roles some political leaders and the media play dividing and deceiving our republic is put into perspective in this arresting book on personal and institutional freedoms whittling away. Democracy is America’s most precious resource—but millions don’t seem to care, watching it gasp its last breaths.

Who’s to Blame? What’s at Stake?
America is on the brink. Taxpayer dollars are burned, trying to change a historical fact. Some media have become willful disinformation agents, manipulating minds and playing on fear. Stop Pretending America: An Outsider’s Guide to Healing the Sickness on the Inside in Elections and the Media exhorts readers to consider the price we end up paying:

• Voters (even Republicans) getting disenfranchised
• Some leaders and bad actors readily using fraud to overturn voter mandates
• Our best and brightest getting fired or censured, standing up for truth
• Extremists, riddled with self-righteous zeal, eagerly awaiting calls to arms
• Divided media coverage perpetuates two unbridgeable realities
• Conspiracy buffs keep chasing down ever crazier, illogical rabbit holes

In America’s darkest hour, the author addresses what’s at stake: challenging readers, providing practical tools to obtain answers on whether widespread 2020 election fraud enabled “The Steal,” while holding the media’s feet to the fire. This book piques and penetrates, leaving no room for ambivalence or complacency, regardless of your political party affiliation. Nor can any of us stay on the same path, headed for a dangerous cliff. We must unite—or face the very real threat of America’s Civil War II.

Political Outsider Philip J. Gimson was a reporter-editor before transitioning into PR, real estate and recruiting. At age five, he watched TV reports of JFK’s assassination with his father, who escaped Nazi Germany’s collapsed democracy in 1939. This historical link framed his father’s views of American government—in turn the author’s. Residing in Pennsylvania, Gimson coaches retired and enlisted military personnel seeking new careers as a Candorful.org volunteer.

Money’s Not the Only Thing Bleeding at Del Guarini Paper. A once great family-owned company, Del Guarini Paper is steadily going into the red – blood red. No the company’s got relatives in no-show jobs on a “wax dummy” payroll, their head of security watched his work boots melt when a disgruntled former employee showed up to pour acid on the timeclock and their CPA has never successfully balanced his books. But the business of keeping the company afloat has become murder, as one by one, someone begins picking off the other Del Guarini brothers. All the killing triggers a life-changing wake-up call for the company’s chief counsel, Arthur Van Gloss, a guy whose spent more time at the race track than the law library. At 42, he’s a mercurial, womanizing slouch who desperately wants out of the legal profession and doing the Del Guarinis’ gophering. As the murders put the fear of God into Van Gloss, he begins following his natural instinct for reading other people and connecting the dots on the trail to find the killer. As the resourceful Van Gloss learns to trust those instincts and overcome that has plagued his failed legal career, he also undergoes a moral transformation from that of an incorrigible and self-absorbed cad to a mature, caring soul who suddenly discovers the key to his own heart. Packed with comic scenes and irony, “Paper Story” takes the reader through a fast-paced, suspenseful journey as Van Gloss tackles overwhelming odds and the prospect of career-ending mistakes in hopes of unraveling the mystery of the Del Guarini Paper company murders. But to solve the cae, Van Gloss knows he has to sacrifice everything, maybe even the only love he has ever known.