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Bad news Get reputable news organizations like The New York Times or The Washington Post to host our virus citation Game plan of secretly-funded alt-right media orgnizations like Breitbart News and Goverrnment Accountability Institute © 2016 Kwiple.com
By the numbers On average, people in red states die five years earlier than people in blue states. Indeed, the gap in life expectancy between Louisiana (75.7) and Connecticut (80.8) is the same as that between the United States and Nicaragua.  Arlie Russell Hochschild, Strangers in Their Own Land  © 2017 Kwiple.com
Conservatives No one had come along to suggest that power should be unlimited. But now someone has, and we have learned something very interesting about these “conservatives,” both the rank and file and holders of high of high office: their overwhelming commitment is not to democratic allocation of power, but to their ideological goals — the annihilation of liberalism, the restoration of a white ethno-nationalist hegemony. They know better than to speak of such things openly, but every once and a while they have allowed a piece of the cat's anatomy to slip out of the bag, a tail here, a hind leg there. Michael Tomasky, New York Review of Books, August 16, 2018 © 2018 Kwiple.com
Conservatives say It could always be worse © 2018 Kwiple.com
Conservatives say It's always been that way © 2018 Kwiple.com
Politics The central conservative truth is that it is culture, not politics, that determines the success of a society. The central liberal truth is that politics can change a culture and save it from itself. Daniel Patrick Moynihan, in a 2003 memorandum  © 2016 Kwiple.com
Rural America What seems right is what has seemed right for a long time. Robert Wuthnow, The Left Behind © 2018 Kwiple.com
Snapshot It's the ideological equivalent of tertiary syphilis The alt right portrayed by Rudyard Kwipler, who expects alt righters to wear their “I'm deplorable” and “I'm syphilitic” T-shirts on alternating days © 2016 Kwiple.com
State of the union This country is in quite a pickle. Conservatives govern without shame and liberals shame without governing. Bill Maher, Real Time with Bill Maher, June 8, 2018 © 2018 Kwiple.com
Thinking The team [that tested and confirmed the hypothesis that low-effort, automatic thinking promotes political conservativism] also found they could push people to the right by distracting them, putting them under time pressure or simply telling them not to think too hard. Participants who were asked to deliberate more deeply, in contrast, shifted their political thinking to the left. New Scientist, December 16, 2017 © 2017 Kwiple.com
Thinking When researchers in the US loitered outside a bar in New England and asked customers about their political views, they found that the drunker the punter, the more right-wing their leanings. That wasn't because right- wing people drink more or get pissed more easily. Wherever people stood on the political spectrum when sober, alcohol shifted their views to the right. Why might that be? The researchers … pointed out that alcohol strips away complex reasoning to reveal the default state of mind. And that is why they were chatting to drunks: they were using drunkenness to test the hy- pothesis that low-effort, automatic thought promotes political conservatism. New Scientist, December 16, 2017 © 2017 Kwiple.com
Victimhood If you are looking for someone making political hay out of victimhood nowadays, look no further than the right. … In these cases,  victimhood serves merely as a pretext for a backlash to reassert, extend or expand the dominance of the powerful. If these people are victims of anything, it is of the threat to their entitlement and privilege. Gary Younge, Stranger in a Strange Land  © 2017 Kwiple.com