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#states

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Look at us. We build giant highways and murderously fast cars for killing each other and committing suicide. Instead of bomb shelters we construct gigantic frail glass buildings all over Manhattan at Ground Zero, a thousand feet high, open to the sky, life a woman undressing before an intruder and provoking him to rape her. We ring Russia's borders with missile-launching pads, and then scream that she's threatening us. In all history there's never been a more lurid mass example of the sadist-masochist expression of the thanatos instinct than the present conduct of the United States. The Nazis by comparison were Eagle Scouts.


Herman Wouk


#death #ground-zero #manhattan #modernity #sadism

[T]he state should not impose a preferred way of life, but should leave its citizens as free as possible to choose their own values and ends, consistent with a similar liberty for others.


Michael J. Sandel


#individuals #liberalism #liberty #states #values

Never has America lost a war ... But name, if you can, the last peace the United States won. Victory yes, but this country has never made a successful peace because peace requires exchanging ideas, concepts, thoughts, and recognizing the fact that two distinct systems of life can exist together without conflict. Consider how quickly America seems to be facing its allies of one war as new enemies.


Vine Deloria Jr.


#native-american #politics #united-states #war #life

Sneaky and underhanded, the Federal Reserve has been sucking the life blood out of the United States since 1913. Like a black widow spider, it weaves a web of corruption and deceit. Unknown to its prey, the FED's bite is poisonous, deep, long-lasting and brings financial upheaval and misery to Americans.


Jim McCarthy


#the-money-spiders #united-states #money

If you put your politicians up for sale, as the US does (alone in this among industrialized democracies), then someone will buy them--and it won’t be you; you can’t afford them.


Juan Cole


#money #politicians #politics #super-pacs #united-states

How dismal it is to see present day Americans yearning for the very orthodoxy that their country was founded to escape.


Christopher Hitchens


#fundamentalism #religion #secularism #separation-of-church-and-state #united-states

Conversion and zealotry, just like revelation and apostasy, are flip sides of the same coin, the currency of a political culture having more in common with religion than rational discourse.


Norman G. Finkelstein


#christopher-hitchens #conversion #politics #rationality #reason

This is that moment in the hangover in which you discover that your keys are in your hat, the cat is in the sink, and you attempted late the previous night to make stew out of a pot holder. Things are in the wrong place. Religion is in the box where science used to be. Politics is on the shelf where you thought you left science the previous afternoon. Entertainment seems to have been knocked over and spilled on everything.


Charles P. Pierce


#reason #united-states #religion

Political corruption, social greed, and Americanized quasi-socialism can ruin even the most wonderful places. California proved that.


Tiffany Madison


#capitalism #corruption #greed #politics #politics-of-the-united-states






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