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Our economy is a plantation run for the aristocrats – the CEOs, hedge funds, private equity firms – while the field hands are left with the scraps.

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Barack Obama seemed to think he could win over his enemies. He certainly seemed to believe too much in his own powers of persuasion. One thing’s for sure – he misunderstood the nature of his adversaries.
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Believe Thinking Winning
I take “We, the People” seriously because I don’t know how we build a civilization without reciprocity.
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Civilization People Reciprocity
America is the longest argument in the world.
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Argument Country World
He even jeopardized his pledge to preserve women’s rights under Roe v. Wade in order to get a health care bill written by the corporate lapdog Max Baucus and the gang of revolving door mercenaries he hired to write a bill friendly to industry.
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Corporate Health Mercenaries Revolving Under Women
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
Why is the country not having this conversation, the kind of conversation that requires the politicians who are responsible for the war to be specific to the concerns of the American people.
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Country People War
There are honest journalists like there are honest politicians – they stay bought.
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Honest Journalist Politician
Secrecy is the freedom tyrants dream of.
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Dream Freedom Tyrants
Democracy only works when we claim it as our own.
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Allow Claims Democracy People
Our media and political system has turned into a mutual protection racket.
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Media Political Protection
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
I’m angry at what’s happening to America and angry with myself that I can’t do more. I would be miserable if I couldn’t bear witness.
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Angry Bears Country
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
I really believe that coincidence is God’s way of remaining anonymous.
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Believe Fate Spiritual
Beauty is an expression of that rapture of being alive.
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Alive Beauty Expression
The quality of democracy and the quality of journalism are deeply entwined.
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Democracy Media Quality

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