Citas de 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

  School, Government, Democracy

  Thomas Frank (2008). “The Wrecking Crew: How Conservatives Rule”, p.3, Macmillan

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• For-profit higher education is today a booming industry, feeding on the student loans handed out to the desperate.

  Thomas Frank

  Today, Students, Desperate

  John Summers, Chris Lehmann, Thomas Frank (2014). “No Future for You: Salvos from the Baffler”, p.13, MIT Press

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• 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

  Running, Thinking, Ugly

  "Rent-a-Womb Is Where Market Logic Leads" by Thomas Frank, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 12, 2009.

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• Bad government is the natural product of rule by those who believe government is bad.

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  Believe, Government, Natural

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• En los pueblos pequeños, los adolescentes aburridos miran con nostalgia a las grandes ciudades y suspiran por servicios urbanos como bares de moda, mercados de agricultores y festivales de rock indie. Como todo el mundo, quieren lo vibrante y no se les va a negar.

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  Hipster, Teenager, Eye

  John Summers, Chris Lehmann, Thomas Frank (2014). “No Future for You: Salvos from the Baffler”, p.113, MIT Press

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• Promises to get beyond partisanship are the most perfunctory sort of campaign rhetoric, almost as empty as the partisanship itself.

  Thomas Frank

  Promise, Campaigns, Empty

  "Bipartisanship Is a Silly Beltway Obsession" by Thomas Frank, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 22, 2009.

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• 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.

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  Trying, Watches, Three

  "Wrecking, Wrecking, Wrecked" by Thomas Frank, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 30, 2008.

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• When done right - or wrong, depending on how you look at it - deficits remove liberal options from the table. Suddenly there's no money for building bridges or inspecting meat. Not surprisingly, running up a deficit is a strategy favored by the wrecking crew for its liberal-killing properties.

  Thomas Frank

  Running, Bridges, Meat

  "No Future for You" by Thomas Frank, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 27, 2008.

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• People getting their fundamental interests wrong is what American political life is all about.

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  People, Political, Fundamentals

  Thomas Frank (2007). “What's the Matter with Kansas?: How Conservatives Won the Heart of America”, p.1, Macmillan

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• [The right] may never bring prayer back to schools, but it has rescued all manner of rightwing economic nostrums from history's dustbins. Having rolled back the landmark economic reforms of the sixties (the war on poverty) and those of the thirties (labor law, agricultural price supports, banking regulation), its leaders now turn their guns on the accomplishments of the earliest years of progressivism (Woodrow Wilson's estate tax; Theodore Roosevelt's anti-trust measures). With a little more effort, the backlash may well repeal the entire twentieth century.

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  Prayer, War, School

  "What's the Matter with Kansas?". Book by Thomas Frank, 2004.

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• They, the conservatives, are the real outsides, they tell us, gazing with disgust upon the ludicrous manners of the high and mighty. Or, they tell us, they are rough-and-ready proles, laughing along with us at the efforts of our social "betters" to reform and improve us. That they are often, in fact, people of privilege doing their utmost to boost the fortunes of a political party that is the traditional tool of the privileged is a contradiction that does not trouble them.

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  Real, Party, Laughing

  "What's the Matter with Kansas? How Conservatives Won the Heart of America". Book by Thomas Frank, June1, 2004.

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• The thing now is to seem concerned in a vaguely social-democratic way.

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  Way, Social, Democratic

  "Toll Roads Are Paved With Bad Intentions" by Thomas Frank, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 3, 2009.

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• If your purpose is to understand the clique of people who dominate Washington today, the emails that really matter are the ones being slowly released by WikiLeaks from the hacked account of Hillary Clinton's campaign chair John Podesta.

  Thomas Frank

  People, Email, Wikileaks

  Fuente: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• This aesthetic quality, then, is what politics is all about. It's authenticity that separates winners from losers, good politics from bad, and he-man leader-types from consultant-directed puppet-boys.

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  Sunset, Boys, Men

  "Joe Klein’s Turnip Day" by Thomas Frank, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 26, 2006.

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• Mounting a campaign against plutocracy makes as much sense to the typical Washington liberal as would circulating a petition against gravity. What our modernized liberal leaders offer is not confrontation but a kind of therapy for those flattened by the free-market hurricane: they counsel us to accept the inevitability of the situation.

  Thomas Frank

  Leader, Typical, Campaigns

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• Cuando los animadores de la derecha no están declarando su disgusto con el presidente Obama por arrastrarse ante potentados extranjeros, fingen temerle como a un matón de izquierdas, un ejemplo de lo que llaman "el estilo Chicago".

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  Thug, Wings, President

  "The Real Chicago Way" by Thomas Frank, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 18, 2010.

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• Liberal that I am, I support health-care reform on its merits alone. My liberal blood boils, for example, when I read that half of the personal bankruptcies in this country are brought on, in part, by medical expenses.

  Thomas Frank

  Country, Blood, Support

  "Health-Care Reform Could Kill the GOP" by Thomas Frank, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 3, 2009.

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• 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

  Self, Age, Add

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• Cuando se intercambia dinero por un embarazo, algunos creen que la maternidad subrogada se acerca a la venta de órganos, o incluso de bebés.

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  Baby, Pregnancy, Believe

  "Rent-a-Womb Is Where Market Logic Leads" by Thomas Frank, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 12, 2009.

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• People are born in a certain place, and in a certain society. I don't mean to sound like a determinist, but to think we're entirely free to do whatever we want betrays a certain class perspective. For most people who have to work for a living, and work at jobs under conditions they may not like, it's just not simple when it comes to freedom.

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  Jobs, Betrayal, Mean

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• Yes, Democrats can prove that America pays more for health care than other countries; yes, they have won the dispute that private health insurance is needlessly expensive. But what they've lost is the argument that we are a society.

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  Country, America, Care

  "Why Democrats Are Losing on Health Care" by Thomas Frank, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 18, 2009.

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• The great goal of the backlash is to nurture a cultural class war, and the first step in doing so, as we have seen, is to deny the economic basis of social class. After all, you can hardly deride liberals as society's "elite" or present the GOP as the party of the common man if you acknowledge the existence of the corporate world - the power that creates the nation's real elite, that dominates its real class system, and that wields the Republican Party as its personal political sidearm.

  Thomas Frank

  Real, Guerra, Partido

  "What's the Matter with Kansas?: How Conservatives Won the Heart of America". Book by Thomas Frank, April 1, 2007.

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• Most of Roosevelt's innovations have been the law of the land for 70 years now, and yet we are still a free society free enough, that is, to allow tens of thousands of protesters to gather on the National Mall and to broadcast their slogans and speeches to the world via C-SPAN.

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  Years, Law, Land

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• Maybe that first, gigantic deficit the Reaganites piled up was an accident, just a combination of deluded 'supply side' tax cuts and a huge bag of good stuff for the Pentagon. But pretty quickly conservatives discovered that deficits, when done correctly, did something really cool: deficits defunded the Left.

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  Cutting, Bags, Done

  "No Future for You" by Thomas Frank, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 27, 2008.

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• Vote to stand tall against terrorists ; receive Social Security privatization . Vote to strike a blow against elitism; receive a social order in which wealth is more concentrated than ever before in our lifetimes , in which workers have been stripped of power and CEOs are rewarded in a manner beyond imagining.

  Thomas Frank

  Blow, Order, Vote

  Thomas Frank (2007). “What's the Matter with Kansas?: How Conservatives Won the Heart of America”, p.7, Macmillan

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