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 manufacture much. We just burn up ever scarcer petroleum in the ever-expanding suburbs built with mortgage… — 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
