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Joe Bageant
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January 01, 1946
in Winchester, Virginia, The United States
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This is the introduction to Waltzing at the Doomsday Ball: The Best of Joe Bageant, a book released today and available through Amazon-US. It includes 25 of Joe's essays published online in the past seven years. Please feel free to copy and re-post.
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Deer Hunting with Jesus: Dispatches from America's Class War
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2007
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Rainbow Pie
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Waltzing at the Doomsday Ball: The Best of Joe Bageant
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2012
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“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 comfortably enough and exercise their liberties very lightly, never testing the boundaries. You never know you are in a prison unless you try the door.”
― Joe Bageant, Deer Hunting with Jesus: Dispatches from America's Class War
― Joe Bageant, Deer Hunting with Jesus: Dispatches from America's Class War
“The four cornerstones of the American political psyche are 1) emotion substituted for thought, 2) fear, 3) ignorance and 4) propaganda”
― Joe Bageant, Deer Hunting with Jesus: Dispatches from America's Class War
― Joe Bageant, Deer Hunting with Jesus: Dispatches from America's Class War
“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 me until I'm blind, kill and eat all of my neighbors right in front of my eyes, but show me the money! Let me escape with every cent I can kick out of the suckers, the taxpayers, and anybody else I can get a headlock on, legally or otherwise." Democrats, in contrast, seem content to catalog the GOP's outrages against the Republic, showing proper indignation while laughing at episodes of The Daily Show. But they stand behind the American brand: imperialism. They "support our troops," though you will be hard put to find any of them who have served alongside them or who would send one of their own kids off to lose an eye or an arm in Iraq. They play the imperial game, maintain their credit ratings, and plan to keep the beach house and the retirement investments if it means sacrificing every damned Lynndie England in West Virginia.”
― Joe Bageant, Deer Hunting with Jesus: Dispatches from America's Class War
― Joe Bageant, Deer Hunting with Jesus: Dispatches from America's Class War
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