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Alex Pareene

American Writer

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Apocalyptic hysteria is much more effective at getting people to open their wallets than reasonable commentary. Alex Pareene

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It's easy for the thought-leader and executive classes to embrace a 'do what you love and love what you do' philosophy when they are wealthy enough to work hard only voluntarily, and when their jobs grant them status. Alex Pareene

The conservative media movement exists primarily as a moneymaking venture. Alex Pareene

Conservative Primarily Venture Exists Movement Media Moneymaking

FreedomWorks, which is funded primarily by very rich people, solicits donations from non-rich conservative people. More than 80,000 people donated money to FreedomWorks in 2012, and it seems likely that only a small minority of those people were hedge fund millionaires. Alex Pareene

'Political junkies' and liberals will watch MSNBC, and angry, old right-wingers will watch Fox. Alex Pareene

Angry Political Old Will Liberals Watch Fox

There are two important things to remember about 'entitlements': They are hugely popular programs for a very good reason, and actual sensible 'reform' would mean improving them, not sacrificing them at the altar of 'fiscal responsibility.' Alex Pareene

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Medicare is expensive because we spend a lot on healthcare. We spend a lot on healthcare basically just because we want to, and doing so has been very good to a lot of people who work in healthcare fields. Alex Pareene

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Do you know who takes weekday shuttle flights between Washington and New York? People who think they are too important for the train, let alone the bus. Alex Pareene

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Rush Holt would be a fine senator. He's an actual physicist, which is neat. He cares very strongly about global warming, which is probably the single most pressing issue of our era. Alex Pareene

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Every year, the White House Correspondents' Dinner inspires two competing varieties of coverage: celebrity-obsessed fawning and angry tirades about how it represents everything twisted about our broken democracy. It doesn't, really. Alex Pareene

Niall Ferguson is an intellectual fraud whose job, for years, has been to impress dumb, rich Americans with his accent and flatter them with his writings. Alex Pareene

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Co-opting the conservative line on anti-poverty programs did nothing to halt conservative attacks on anti-poverty programs. Alex Pareene

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I grew up in a politically aware household: very civically-minded, good Minnesota liberals. Alex Pareene

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The Pentagon budget, like all government spending, is an expression of priorities. Alex Pareene

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For most of the millions of people who watch TED videos at the office, it's a middlebrow diversion and a source of factoids to use on your friends. Except TED thinks it's changing the world, like if 'This American Life' suddenly mistook itself for Doctors Without Borders. Alex Pareene

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An American parliamentary system with proportional representation wouldn't immediately or inexorably lead to a flourishing social democracy, but it would at least correct the overrepresentation of an ideological minority and cut down on intentional tactical economic sabotage. Alex Pareene

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American politicians are responsive almost solely to the interests and desires of their rich constituents and interest groups that primarily represent big business. Alex Pareene

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Please don't begin to believe that the American political establishment is anything but a corrupt puppet of oligarchy. Alex Pareene

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Political battles are won when the rich favor them. Alex Pareene

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Sen. Rand Paul is a Different Kind of Republican. He will drag the party, kicking and screaming, toward a new kind of conservatism that appeals more to today's youth, who embrace liberty and are skeptical of foreign intervention. Alex Pareene

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