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“The great weakness of the West is that it has nothing with which to inspire loyalty except wealth. But what is wealth? Another washing machine, a bigger car, a nicer house to live in? Not much to f...”
“...sometimes offering a quality daily opinion about whats going on in American politics feels like trying to compose a beautiful symphony using only the recorded screams of psychiatric patients.”
“Discrimination does not 'make America great.' It makes America weak.”
“That old unionism was, however, very different from the kind we live with now. We do not live with an ideal, sometimes on the defensive, of union. We live with the overriding, overwhelming fact, a ...”
“We are soon approaching a refined holiday, "Merry Mas," where Christ will be taken out of its context.”
“It is possible that the next economic downturn--or stock market crash--will bring on further developments. During the recession at the end of the 1980s, ex-Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke gathered s...”
“Alexis de Tocqueville warned that as the economy and government of America got bigger, citizens could become smaller: less practiced in the forms of everyday power, more dependent on vast distant s...”
“In California, after weeks of meeting transported Americans from practically every state in the Union, I announced to Kareem that I liked these strange loud people, the Americans. When he asked me ...”
“Astute social commentators had been anticipating this rightward shift since the early 1980s. Bertram Gross predicted, in his book Friendly Fascism, that the United States might arrive at a gentler ...”
“Many of the people who consented to talk about their private lives in front of millions of television viewers would say that they were sharing their stories as a way to give comfort [to] fellow suf...”
“At first, I was shocked that Diane could even suggest this family reunion [on television], and then I realized this is just the way of the world, or at least the way of fin de siecle America. Not o...”
“When the Rule of Law disappears, we are ruled by the whims of men.”
“Small differences in a system of great power can have enormous consequences. [Source: Al Jazeera 'Upfront' interview]”
“Why did this [Vietnam] war, so hard, so long, so ferocious, vanish from one day to the next as if by magic?Why did this American defeat (the largest reversal in the history of the USA) have no inte...”
“But this aura of an artificial menace was still necessary to conceal that they [Presidents] were no longer anything but the mannequins of power. Formerly, the king (also the god) had to die, therei...”
“If this were a courageous country,it would ask Gloria to lead itsince she is sane and funny and beautiful and smartand the National Leaders we've always hadare not.When I listen to her talk about w...”
“But when our elected officials and our political campaign become entirely untethered to reason and facts and analysis, when it doesnt matter what's true and what's not, that makes it all but imposs...”
“Both political parties have moved to the right during the neoliberal period. Todays New Democrats are pretty much what used to be called moderate Republicans. The political revolution that Bernie S...”
“We know enough to know that all of this is not quite right. And we know enough to know that settling for whats not quite right is quite wrong.”
“The sacrifice of self for the greater good is the greatest calling imaginable, and it is the bedrock of the greatest nations. The sacrifice for self is the most pathetic calling imaginable, and it ...”
