“The tide of our national meanness rises incrementally, one brutalizing experience at a time, inside one person at a time in a chain of working-class Americans stretching back for decades. Back to the terror-filled nineteen-year-old girl from Weirton, West Virginia,… — Joe Bageant Copy Share Image
“Remember when welfare mothers were robbing us all blind and driving Cadillacs? ” — Joe Bageant Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 the world: city people, educated city people who win and control while the rest of us work and lose. Snort at the proposition if you want, but that was the view I grew up with, and… — 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 two parties is that the Republicans pretty much admit that they grasp and even endorse some of the nastiest facts of life in America. Republicans honestly tell the world: "Listen in on my phone calls, piss-test… — Joe Bageant Copy Share
“Parties do not lead revolutions. They follow them. And then only when forced to.” — Joe Bageant Copy Share Image
“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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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