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I take “We, the People” seriously because I don’t know how we build a civilization without reciprocity.

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In uniform patriotism can salute one flag only, embrace but the first circle of life – one’s own land and tribe. In war that is necessary, in peace it is not enough.
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Circles Enough Land Tribe War
When ideology and theology couple, their offspring are not always bad but they are always blind.
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Blind Couple Theology
Our very lives depend on the ethics of strangers, and most of us are always strangers to other people.
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Ethics People Stranger
The fault line in American history is now a dividing line in the election and it’s changing the conversation.
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Country Election Fault History
Secrecy is the freedom tyrants dream of.
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Dream Freedom Tyrants
Democracy doesn’t begin at the top; it begins at the bottom, when flesh-and-blood human beings fight to rekindle what Arlo Guthrie calls ‘The Patriot’s Dream.
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Blood Dream Fighting
Democracy only works when we claim it as our own.
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Allow Claims Democracy People
Theology asserts propositions that cannot be proven true; ideologues hold stoutly to a worldview despite being contradicted by what is generally accepted as reality.
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Couple Reality Religion
This “degenerate and unlovely age,” as one historian calls it, exists in the mind of Karl Rove the reputed brain of George W. Bush as the seminal age of inspiration for politics and governance of America today.
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Degenerate Governance Politics Seminal
But what it meant in politics a century later, and still means today, is the freedom to accumulate wealth without social or democratic responsibilities and license to buy the political system right out from everyone else.
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Democratic Freedom Mean Political Social System Today
A people made morbidly obese in mind and spirit by the junk food of propaganda is less inclined to put up a fight, ask questions and be skeptical. And just as a democracy can die of too many lies, that kind of orthodoxy can kill us, too.
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Die Less People Questions Skeptical
Professionals give advice; pilgrims share wisdom.
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Advice Giving Inspirational
Our children are being raised by appliances.
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Appliances Children Raised
How do we protect the soul of democracy against bad theology in service of an imperial state?
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Democracy Political Soul
Having lost faith in all else, zealots have nothing left but a holy cause to please a warrior God. They win if we become holy warriors, too; if we kill the innocent as they do; strike first at those who had not struck us.
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Thinking Warrior Winning
Barack Obama treated too lightly the people and forces determined to destroy him. They spat in his face and didn’t even get ticketed for a misdemeanor.
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Determined Faces People

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