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“Angry voters are more willing to support candidates who vilify their opponents and find easy scapegoats. Talking heads have become shouting heads. Many Americans have grown cynical about our collective ability to solve our problems. And that cynicism has become a self-fulfilling prophecy, as nothing gets solved.”
― Robert B. Reich, Beyond Outrage (Expanded Edition): What has gone wrong with our economy and our democracy, and how to fix it

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“In all, 62 percent of the budget cuts would come from low-income programs. Yet at the same time, the Republican budget would provide a substantial tax cut to the rich—who are already taking home an almost unprecedented share of the nation’s total income.”
― Robert B. Reich, Beyond Outrage (Expanded Edition): What has gone wrong with our economy and our democracy, and how to fix it

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“So many Americans are angry and frustrated these days—vulnerable to loss of job and health care and home, without a shred of economic security—they’re easy prey for demagogues offering big lies. Yet the only antidote for big lies is big truth—told relentlessly and powerfully. You must be armed with it.”
― Robert B. Reich, Beyond Outrage (Expanded Edition): What has gone wrong with our economy and our democracy, and how to fix it

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“An economy should exist for the people who inhabit it, not the other way around. The purpose of an economy is to provide everyone with opportunities to live full, happy, and productive lives. Yet when most people come to view the economic game as rigged, this most basic purpose cannot be achieved. It is impossible to live happily in a society that seems fundamentally unfair or to live well in a nation rife with anger and cynicism.”
― Robert B. Reich, Beyond Outrage (Expanded Edition): What has gone wrong with our economy and our democracy, and how to fix it

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