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We have to face the unpleasant as well as the affirmative side of the human story, including our own story as a nation, our own stories of our peoples.
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Reality Thinking Views
Conservatism is less a set of ideas than it is a pathological distemper, a militant anger over the fact that the universe is not closed and life is not static.
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Facts Ideas Life Static
Witness the coupling of news and entertainment. See everyday people cast overboard as the pirates and predators of Wall Street seized the ship of state. I didn’t drift; I moved left just by standing still.
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Moving Overboard Predator Standing
What we instantly got was a freak show of political pornography: lies, distortions, and half-truths – half-truths being perhaps the blackest of all lies. They paraded before us as informed opinion.
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Informed Opinion Perhaps Political
Television is a medium. It is neither rare nor well done.
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Done Fun Television
Democracy only works when we claim it as our own.
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Allow Claims Democracy People
America is the longest argument in the world.
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Argument Country World
If the watchdog doesn’t bark, how do you know there’s a burglar in the basement? And the press is supposed to be a watchdog.
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Bark Basements Supposed
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
Beauty is an expression of that rapture of being alive.
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Alive Beauty Expression
Ideas are great arrows, but there has to be a bow.
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Arrows Ideas Motivational
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
The rich today are richer, there are more of them, they have round-the-clock propaganda factories in Rupert Murdoch’s empire and rightwing talk radio, and corporate media have their back.
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Empires Media Radio
Fox News and Rush Limbaugh have raised ignorance to ideology and stupefied an entire political party. No more roguish and rowdy band of predators ever did more to demean and despoil the democracy on whose carcass they feed.
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Ignorance Party Political
Capitalism is out of control, thanks in no small part to Citizens United, the Supreme Court decision which said that a corporation is a person, even though it doesn’t eat, drink, make love, sing, raise children or take care of aging parents.
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Children Long People
Unless you’re willing to fight and refight the same battles until you go blue in the face, drive the people you work with nuts going over every detail to make certain you’ve got it right, and then take hit after unfair hit accusing you of bias, there’s no use even trying.
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Blue Fighting Nuts

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