“Today’s neoliberal Democrat is ideologically closer to yesterday’s Republican, and Republicans? Well, they’re the new know-nothing party, immune to facts, impermeable to truth, and consumed by hate, fear, greed, anger, xenophobia and racism.”
— John Atcheson, The Revolution Is Here: Democrats Ignore It at Their Peril.
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“At the end of the day, as much as I wanted to be there with my teammates and share that experience with my teammates, I can’t do it. I just can’t do it.”
— Washington Nationals pitcher Sean Doolittle on why he would not go to the White House when the World Series champions went to meet Donald Trump.
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“Good riddance. It’s not like Mr. Trump paid taxes here anyway. He’s all yours, Florida.”
— New York Governor Andrew Cuomo responding to Donald Trump changing his residence to Florida.
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“I cannot tell a lie.” — George Washington
“I cannot tell the truth.” — Donald Trump
— Online comment.
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“Nobody is better than the U.S. at killing terrorists. Nobody is better than the U.S. at creating terrorists. The cycle continues. The weapons companies get rich. Children—yes, including Bagdadi’s children—die.”
— Medea Benjamin, A Reminder Following Baghdadi’s Death: ‘The Terrorists We’re Killing Today Are the Terrorists We Created Yesterday’.
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“There has been a lot of sleepwalking that has been going on for a long time. America is a corporate democracy. That is the challenge. That is why I support brother Bernie Sanders so strongly. It’s always a critical support. But it’s a strong, intense support because we have got to focus on the concentration of wealth in America. Capitalism has to be a crucial object of critical interrogation. Now, even as a socialist, I still believe in markets, and I still believe in private liberties. I believe in civil rights. I believe people should have freedom of expression and opinion and so on. But under what conditions do we have these markets where 1% of population owns 42% of the wealth? How are those “free markets”? Quit lying. There is escalating poverty that is hardly even counted.”
— Cornel West, Cornel West on hope and resistance in the age of Trump: We must “find joy in the struggle”.
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“[T]he liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than their democratic state itself. That, in its essence, is fascism—ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power.”
— FDR, 1938.