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" Americans cannot teach democracy to the world until they restore their own. "
Restore
Teach
World
" Animal-rights advocates remind us of this admonition: The ways in which people treat animals will be reflected in how people relate to one another. "
Will
Ways
Us
" A profound political question is suddenly on the table: Must the country continue to give precedence to private financial gain and market determinism over human lives and broad public values? "
Country
Financial
Political
" As the world's finest democracy, we do not do guillotines. But there are other less bloody rituals of humiliation, designed to reassure the populace that order is restored, the Republic cleansed. "
Republic
World
Democracy
" Children born today have a fifty-fifty chance of living to 100. "
Chance
Today
Living
" Everyone's values are defined by what they will tolerate when it is done to others. "
Done
Others
Values
" Folks in the bottom half of the economy are already squeezed hard. They will be bloodied and bankrupt if economic policy inadvertently induces a recession. "
Will
Hard
Policy
" If US per capita income continues to grow at a rate of 1.5 percent a year, the country will have plenty of money to finance comfortable retirements and high-quality healthcare for all citizens, including those at the bottom of the wage ladder. "
Grow
Finance
Healthcare
" If we have wealth, it will be protected from inflation and possibly even enhanced in value. "
Wealth
Value
Inflation
" If you think about it, Washington's overwhelming power in the world is founded on death, the awesome arsenal for killing people. "
Power
Death
You
" In 1900 Americans on average lived for only 49 years and most working people died still on the job. "
Working
Average
Lived
" In the deregulated realm of US banking and finance, crime does occasionally pay for its foul deeds, not in prison time but by making modest rebates to the victims. "
Finance
Prison
Crime
" In this country you can say aloud or publish just about anything you like. "
Anything
Like
Country
" Leaks and whispers are a daily routine of news-gathering in Washington. "
Leaks
Washington
Daily
" Nevertheless, I resist cynicism and continue to believe in the possibilities for genuine democracy. "
Possibilities
Believe
Democracy
" Obviously, people with low or even moderate incomes could not afford such savings rates, and even diligent savings from their low wages would not be enough to pay for either retirement or healthcare. "
Enough
Healthcare
Retirement
" The burnt odor in Washington is from the disintegrating authority of the governing classes. "
Washington
Burnt
Authority
" The do-it-yourself version of pensions is a flop, as many Americans have painfully learned. "
Do-It-Yourself
Version
Many
" The economy is not governed with the bottom half in mind. "
Half
Bottom
Economy
" The point is, the political reporters are the ones who no longer understand the ritual they are covering. They keep searching for political meanings in the tepid events when a convention is now essentially a human drama and only that. "
Political
Drama
Events
" The regime of globalization promotes an unfettered marketplace as the dynamic instrument organizing international relations. "
Organizing
Globalization
Instrument
" The threat to globalization is not the wasted American dollars but Washington's readiness to mix US commercial interests with its self-appointed role as global protector. "
Washington
Us
Globalization
" The ways in which people treat animals will be reflected in how people relate to one another. "
Animals
Will
Treat
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