“I’m not a gun owner and, as I think as is the case for the more than half the people in the country who also aren’t gun owners, that means that for me guns are alien. In the current rhetorical climate people seem not to want to say: I think guns are kind of scary and don’t want to be around them.” PeopleThinkingWantKindMeanCountrySeemsHalfCasesGunClimateCurrentsScaryAliensOwnersRhetoricalGun Owners Author:Josh Marshall
“Titles of property, for instance railway shares, may change hands every day, and their owner may make a profit by their sale even in foreign countries, so that titles to property are exportable, although the railway itself is not.” MayCountryHandsSharePropertyProfitInstanceTitlesOwnersRailwayForeign Countries Book:Capital: A Critical Analysis of Capitalist Production Source: Capital: A Critical Analysis of Capitalist Production
“One percent of the nation owns a third of the wealth. The rest of the wealth is distributed in such a way as to turn those in the 99 percent against one another: small property owners against the propertyless, black against white, native-born against foreign-born, intellectuals and professionals against the uneducated and the unskilled. These groups have resented one another and warred against one another with such vehemence and violence as to obscure their common position as sharers of leftovers in a very wealthy country.” WayCountryTurnsNationsBlackBornWealthWhiteCommonViolenceGroupsPositionPercentThirdsPropertyNativeOwnersWealthyObscureUneducatedLeftoversVehemenceEducated And Uneducated Book:A People's History of the United States: 1492-Present Source: A People's History of the United States: 1492-Present