Personal growth, policy, and politics are intimately intertwined. Personal perseverance helps. Equal opportunity, norms, and social structures help even more. Republicans don’t get the connection. You do. Welcome to a short but hopefully poignant book about helping yourself and others.

There are thousands of books about self-help and personal growth. There are thousands of books about politics and developing society. Almost none of these books make the connection between personal growth and government policy. 

Personal Growth for Democrats will remind you, surprise you and make connections for you. Your personal choices about time, money, relationships and efforts to succeed are important, but the choices you make on election day are of equal importance. Both sets of choices will help you (and nations) climb that pyramid that most people are trying to climb. There is simply more to it than perseverance, faith, and hard work. 

John Steinberg, Ph.D., is the author of fifty books in Swedish and English about learning, education, leadership, values, and personal growth. John is grumpy, angry and concerned about the direction of our democracies. With graceful anger, he makes the case that helping ourselves is intimately connected with helping others and urges you to vote for the political party that sees this connection. This is a short book that will take only an hour to read. If you are a concerned citizen with some social engagement, it will help you move forward.