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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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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
How do we protect the soul of democracy against bad theology in service of an imperial state?
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Democracy Political Soul
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
David Rockefeller is the most conspicuous representative today of the ruling class, a multinational fraternity of men who shape the global economy and manage the flow of its capital.
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Class Country Men People
Secrecy is the freedom tyrants dream of.
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Dream Freedom Tyrants
Lyndon Johnson believed the poor deserved a better life than the economy was providing them. He thought private power and greed had to be checked by a vibrant democracy.
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Democracy Economy Greed
The corporate right and the political right declared class warfare on working people a quarter of a century ago and they’ve won.
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Beach Country Hero Quater Working
News is what people want to keep hidden and everything else is publicity.
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News People Want
There’s hardly a more bitter pill to take than when a President disappoints the people who most believed in him.
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People Pills President
I really believe that coincidence is God’s way of remaining anonymous.
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Believe Fate Spiritual
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
Big money and big business, corporations and commerce, are again the undisputed overlords of politics and government.
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Government Running White
For the first time in our history, ideology and theology hold a monopoly of power in Washington.
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First Firsts Monopoly Time
When we were covering the 2008 campaign I told my young African American colleagues that despite the historical significance of victory, Barack Obama was going to break their hearts.
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Believe Couple Heart
I was not a public – I was not a thinker. I was a doer.
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Doers Public Thinkers
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

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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