Our children are being raised by appliances.
BILL MOYERSAmerica’s corporate and political elites now form a regime of their own and they’re privatizing democracy. All the benefits – the tax cuts, policies and rewards flow in one direction: up.
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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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News is what people want to keep hidden and everything else is publicity.
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The Interfaith Alliance has to become an ongoing sustaining and powerful movement whose interest is to prove that religion has a healing side as well as a killing side, and that democracy is the consequence of conscience
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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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Beauty is an expression of that rapture of being alive.
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The quality of democracy and the quality of journalism are deeply entwined.
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Jon Stewart is a remarkable satirist and parodist in the vein of Mark Twain, because Jon Stewart understands what Mark Twain knew, which is that the truth goes down more easily in a democracy when it’s marinated in humor.
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…there is no more effective public interest watchdog in Washington, D.C.
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Secrecy is the freedom tyrants dream of.
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Plutocracy too long tolerated leaves democracy on the auction block, subject to the highest bidder.
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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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Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.
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An unconscious people, an indoctrinated people, a people fed only partisan information and opinion that confirm their own bias.
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The delusional is no longer marginal.
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How do we protect the soul of democracy against bad theology in service of an imperial state?
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