I must tell you it gives me great pleasure to think of you reading these words in licks and whorls of flame, your eyes unable to work backwards, unable to keep the letters on a page; instead you must absorb them, admit them into your
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“Then there are the psychic deliverables—the flattery, for starters. To members of the liberal class, the Democratic Party offers constant reminders that the technocratic order whose upper ranks they inhabit is rational and fair—that whether they work in software or derivative securities they are a deserving elite; creative, tolerant, enlightened. Though it is less tangible, the moral absolution in which Democrats deal is just as important. It seems to put their favorite constituents on the right side of every question, the right side of progress itself. It allows them to understand the war of our two parties as a kind of cosmic struggle between good and evil—a struggle in which they are on the side of light and justice, of course.”
― Listen, Liberal: Or, What Ever Happened to the Party of the People?
― Listen, Liberal: Or, What Ever Happened to the Party of the People?
“IT WAS ONE OF those perfect autumn days so common in stories and so rare in the real world.”
― The Name of the Wind
― The Name of the Wind
“Even if Democrats do succeed, it won’t save us. While there are many great Democrats and many exceptions to the trends I have described in this book, by and large the story has been a disappointing one. We have surveyed this party’s thoughts and deeds from the Seventies to the present, we have watched them abandon whole classes and regions and industries, and we know now what the results have been. Their leadership faction has no intention of doing what the situation requires.”
― Listen, Liberal: Or, What Ever Happened to the Party of the People?
― Listen, Liberal: Or, What Ever Happened to the Party of the People?
“The “ancestral sausage” goes back twenty thousand years to the Paleolithic era.”
― Raw Dog: The Naked Truth About Hot Dogs
― Raw Dog: The Naked Truth About Hot Dogs
“For people in the group I have been describing, there’s nothing dysfunctional or disappointing about Democratic politics; it feels exactly right. And what is rightest and most inspiring about it is the”
― Listen, Liberal: Or, What Ever Happened to the Party of the People?
― Listen, Liberal: Or, What Ever Happened to the Party of the People?
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