“What white middle America loathes these days are poor and poorish people, especially the kind who look and sound like they just might live in a house trailer. They will swear on a stack of Lands' End catalogs that they… — Joe Bageant Copy Share Image
“Remember when welfare mothers were robbing us all blind and driving Cadillacs? ” — Joe Bageant Copy Share
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 Copy Share
The four cornerstones of the American political psyche are 1) emotion substituted for thought, 2) fear, 3) ignorance and 4) propaganda — Joe Bageant Copy Share
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 Copy Share
“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 Copy Share
“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 Copy Share
“Parties do not lead revolutions. They follow them. And then only when forced to.” — Joe Bageant Copy Share
“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 Copy Share
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 Copy Share
“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 Copy Share
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 Copy Share
“Along with the concept of American Dream runs the notion that every man and woman is entitled to an opinion and to one vote,… — Joe Bageant Copy Share
“Somebody left the American Dream in the toaster too long. It's now burnt to a crisp.” — Joe Bageant Copy Share
“Nearly all of these successful folks have made it in the business world by sticking with the free market ideal of survival of the… — Joe Bageant Copy Share
