Inspirational Quotes by Joe Bageant

“Remember when welfare mothers were robbing us all blind and driving Cadillacs? ”

— Joe Bageant

If middle-class Americans do not feel threatened by the slow encroachment of the police state or the Patriot Act, it is because they live…

— Joe Bageant

The four cornerstones of the American political psyche are 1) emotion substituted for thought, 2) fear, 3) ignorance and 4) propaganda

— Joe Bageant

They [Christian rednecks] were so stupid that they couldn't pour piss out of a boot even if the instructions were printed on the bottom.

— Joe Bageant

“Somewhere in between are the rest of us natives, in whom such change revives long-buried anger at those faraway people who seem to govern…

— Joe Bageant

“Republican or Democrat, this nation's affluent urban and suburban classes understand their bread is buttered on the corporate side. The primary difference between the…

— Joe Bageant

“Parties do not lead revolutions. They follow them. And then only when forced to.”

— Joe Bageant

“Inconceivable though it may seem to urban Americans, it is easily possible for many working Americans not to know a person of the liberal…

— Joe Bageant

The reality is that our economy now consists of driving 250 million vehicles around the suburbs and malls and eating fried chicken. We don't…

— Joe Bageant

You never know you are in a prison unless you try the door

— Joe Bageant

“This book is written from a changing town in Virginia, but this class of mine, these people--the ones who smell like an ashtray in…

— Joe Bageant

Cultural stupidity accounts for virtually every aspect of Sarah Palin, both as a person and a political icon. Which, come to think of it,…

— Joe Bageant