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For the first time in our history, ideology and theology hold a monopoly of power in Washington.

Bill Moyers

We don’t care really about children as a society and television reflects that indifference to children as human beings.
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Care Children Television
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
How can those of us who are parents help our children recognize their bliss?
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Children Helping Parents
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
The thing about war is that once it’s triggered, it is unyielding in its appetite. And the more it consumes and gorges, the more it wants.
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Gorges Unyielding War
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
Our great progressive struggles have been waged to make sure ordinary citizens, and not just the rich and privileged, share in the benefits of a free society.
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Citizen Ordinary Struggle
Professionals give advice; pilgrims share wisdom.
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Advice Giving Inspirational
We now know that a neo-conservative is an arsonist who sets the house on fire and six years later boasts that no one can put it out.
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Fire House Years
Those rules divide the world into Democrats and Republicans, liberals and conservatives, and allow journalists to pretend they have done their job if instead of reporting the truth behind the news, they merely give each side an opportunity to spin the news.
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Done Journalist Reporting Truth
There are honest journalists like there are honest politicians – they stay bought.
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Honest Journalist Politician
War, except in self-defense, is a failure of moral imagination.
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Imagination Self War
Plutocracy too long tolerated leaves democracy on the auction block, subject to the highest bidder.
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Block Democracy Long
You do it because there’s a story to be told. I can tell you that the job of trying to tell the truth about people whose job it is to hide the truth is about as complicated and difficult as trying to hide it in the first place.
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Complicated Job People Told Truth Trying
Ideas are great arrows, but there has to be a bow.
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Arrows Ideas Motivational
It’s the people who are doing the nonviolent organizing at the grassroots that make me think there’s still hope.
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Grassroots People Thinking

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