Apparently, there is no bad economic turn a conservative cannot do unto his buddy in the working class, as long as cultural solidarity has been cemented over a beer.
--Thomas Frank
As you watch the world crumble, try taking your Armageddon with this sprinkling of irony: Over the last three decades, business has got virtually everything it wanted, and its doomsday scenario from the 1970s has come true because of it.
--Thomas Frank
Bad government is the natural product of rule by those who believe government is bad.
--Thomas Frank
Conservatism is not a doctrine of contentment. Not a doctrine for the satisfied and the smug. It's a politics that's at war with the world.
--Thomas Frank
Corruption is uniquely reprehensible in a democracy because it violates the system's first principle, which we all learned back in the sunshiny days of elementary school: that the government exist to serve the public, not particular companies or individuals or even elected officials.
--Thomas Frank
For-profit higher education is today a booming industry, feeding on the student loans handed out to the desperate.
--Thomas Frank
Massive inequality, we have learned, isn't the best way to run an economy after all. And when you think about it, it's also profoundly ugly.
--Thomas Frank
Money never seems to be interested in strengthening regulatory agencies, for example, but always in subverting them, in making them miss the danger signs in coal mines and in derivatives trading and in deep-sea oil wells.
--Thomas Frank
People getting their fundamental interests wrong is what American political life is all about.
--Thomas Frank
Promises to get beyond partisanship are the most perfunctory sort of campaign rhetoric, almost as empty as the partisanship itself.
--Thomas Frank
Republicans run the machine when it's their turn, and then hand the wheel over to Democrats when the public has had enough.
--Thomas Frank
We have become a society that can't self-correct, that can't address its obvious problems, that can't pull out of its nosedive. And so to our list of disasters let us add this fourth entry: we have entered an age of folly that- for all our Facebooking and the twittling tweedle-dee-tweets of the twitterati- we can't wake up from.
--Thomas Frank
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