“How the American right managed to convince itself that the programs to alleviate poverty are responsible for the consequences of poverty will someday be studied as a notorious mass illusion.” GovernmentPoliticalPartyPovertyMassIllusionConsequenceProgramResponsibleWelfareConvinceSomedayPolitical PartiesNotoriousAlleviate Book:You Got to Dance with Them What Brung You Source: You Got to Dance with Them What Brung You
“In every civilization, life grows easier. Men grow lazier in consequence. We have a picture of what happened to the individual Greek. (I cannot look at history, or at any human action, except as I look at the individual.) The Greeks had good food, good witty talk, pleasant dinner parties; and they were content. When the individual man had reached that condition in Athens, when the thought not of giving to the state but of what the state could give to him, Athens' freedom was doomed.” MenGivingHumansLooksStatesActionIndividualGrowsPartyHappenedConditionsEasierCivilizationConsequenceWittyDinnerGreekPleasantDoomedEntitlementGood FoodDinner PartyAthensHuman Actions Author:Edith Hamilton
“Unlike any other player on the board, the press has no oversight, no mandate, few penalties, and even fewer consequences. Because there are not enough reporters on the ground, too many bureaus have outsourced both their reporting and standards to third party stringers whose spectacular videos of explosions and inflated body counts have shown up on both jihadist recruiting sites and American television screens, simultaneously.” EnoughBodyPartyPlayerTelevisionStandardsConsequenceThirdsPressesScreensVideoBoardsFewerReportersSitePenaltiesExplosionsSpectacularMandatesOversightThird PartiesAmerican TelevisionOutsourced Author:Matt Sanchez
“The consequences of President Johnsons campaign of deliberate deception regarding Vietnam could hardly have been more catastrophic for the nation, the military, the president, his party, and the presidency itself.” Has BeensNationsPresidentPartyMilitaryConsequenceCampaignsDeceptionVietnamPresidencyDeliberateJohnsonPresident Johnson Author:Eric Alterman
“If the chief party, whether it be the people, or the army, or the nobility, which you think most useful and of most consequence to you for the conservation of your dignity, be corrupt, you must follow their humor and indulge them, and in that case honesty and virtue are pernicious.” PeopleIfsThinkingPartyCasesVirtueHonestyConsequenceDignityArmyCorruptionChiefsConservationNobilityIndulgePernicious Author:Niccolo Machiavelli