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• In other words, in the same way that mass incarceration surged because of a real thing, it's finally starting to ebb because of a real thing: the actual, concrete decline in violent crime that started in the early 90s and which appears to be permanent. America is simply a safer place than it used to be, and looks set to stay that way.

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  Real, America, Looks

  "Our Obsession With Mass Incarceration May Finally Be Ebbing" by Kevin Drum, www.motherjones.com. January 2, 2015.

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• The fallout from the Supreme Court halfway killing Obamacare would likely be more serious than conservatives believe...Even their own base, which has been told relentlessly that Obamacare represents the end of the America they love, might start to demand a fix once it becomes clear just what they’re missing - and what all those blue states with their own exchanges are getting.

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  Believe, Blue, Obamacare

  "Killing Obamacare Halfway Is Worse For Republicans Than They Think" by Kevin Drum, www.motherjones.com. February 27, 2015.

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• There's no liberal equivalent of Donald Trump.

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  Trump

  "In Which I Respond to My Critics About the Bernie Revolution" by Kevin Drum, April 30, 2016.

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• We had Hillary Clinton try and do a reset. We had Hillary Clinton give Russia 20 percent of the uranium in our country. You know what uranium is, right? This thing called nuclear weapons, like lots of things, are done with uranium, including some bad things.

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  Country, Russia, Giving

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Donald Trump lied about criticizing Mark Zuckerberg.Ben Carson lied about Mannatech.Carli Fiorina lied about the size of the tax code.Marco Rubio flatly refused to answer a question ("discredited attacks from Democrats") that I guess he didn't think he could just lie about. This is quite a debate.

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  Lying, Thinking, Zuckerberg

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• [Ronald]Reagan and[George W.] Bush were far more radical than other presidents.

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  President, Radical

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• The folks who want to be left alone are the ones who actually get most of the work done, but they’re still mocked as drones or beavers or trolls. That’s bad enough, but now technology is helping the extroverts in their long twilight campaign against actually concentrating on anything.

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  Twilight, Technology, Long

  "In Which I Respond to My Critics About the Bernie Revolution" by Kevin Drum, www.motherjones.com. April 30, 2016.

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• If you don’t want your followers to give up in disgust, your inspiration needs to be in the service of goals that are at least attainable.

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  Giving Up, Inspiration, Goal

  "In Which I Respond to My Critics About the Bernie Revolution" by Kevin Drum, www.motherjones.com. April 30, 2016.

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• Open office plans, cell phones, constant notifications: these are all things that fight against sustained attention on a task. For some people and some tasks, that doesn’t matter. But for a lot of important work, it matters a lot.

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  Fighting, Phones, Cells

  "In Which I Respond to My Critics About the Bernie Revolution" by Kevin Drum, www.motherjones.com. April 30, 2016.

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• The ability to focus on a single task for an extended period is a talent that’s underappreciated - especially by extroverts, who continue to exercise an unhealthy hegemony over most workplaces.

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  Exercise, Focus, Tasks

  "Trey Gowdy Still Tracking Down Benghazi Conspiracy Theories" by Kevin Drum, April 29, 2016.

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• Smart hiring managers in the modern world should be asking, “How long can you concentrate on a task before you have to take a break?” I wonder how many of them do?

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  Smart, Long, Tasks

  "Three Cheers for Monotasking!" by Kevin Drum, www.motherjones.com. April 29, 2016.

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• I don't support everything Bernie Sanders supports, but I support most of it: universal health care, reining in Wall Street, fighting climate change, reversing the growth of income inequality, and so forth. If we could accomplish all this in a couple of years, I'd be delighted. But we can't.

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  Wall, Couple, Fighting

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• It’s certainly true that it’s easier to be patient about change when you’re not personally suffering...

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  Suffering, Patient, Be Patient

  "In Which I Respond to My Critics About the Bernie Revolution" by Kevin Drum, www.motherjones.com. April 30, 2016.

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• I hate the idea that we might lose even a few talented future leaders because they fell for Bernie Sanders's spiel and then got discouraged when it didn't pan out.

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  Hate, Ideas, Leader

  "Here’s Why I Never Warmed Up to Bernie Sanders" by Kevin Drum, www.motherjones.com. April 29, 2016.

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• My fear is that having been promised a revolution, Bernie Sanders supporters will become disgusted and cynical when Hillary Clinton and the establishment win yet again and the revolution doesn't happen.

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  Winning, Cynical, Revolution

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• In America, the economy is simply nowhere near bad enough to serve as the base of any kind of serious political revolution.

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  Political Revolution, America, Serious

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• I think liberals should accept that if we want big programs that significantly reduce inequality - and we should - it's going to require higher taxes on everyone. The rich can certainly do more, especially given their stupendous income increases since the Reagan era, but they can't do it all.

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  Thinking, Income, Want

  "In Which I Respond to My Critics About the Bernie Revolution" by Kevin Drum, www.motherjones.com. April 30, 2016.

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• If I could snap my fingers and import France's health care system today, I'd do it.

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  Care, Today, France

  "In Which I Respond to My Critics About the Bernie Revolution" by Kevin Drum, www.motherjones.com. April 30, 2016.

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• Rising inequality is a cultural and economic cancer on a lot of different levels.

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  Cancer, Different, Rising

  "In Which I Respond to My Critics About the Bernie Revolution" by Kevin Drum, www.motherjones.com. April 30, 2016.

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• If Trump really opposed the war in Iraq, all he has to do is show us the evidence. It would take five minutes. He hasn’t done it. He’s lying.

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  War, Lying, Iraq

  "In Which I Respond to My Critics About the Bernie Revolution" by Kevin Drum, www.motherjones.com. April 30, 2016.

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• The media should be embarrassed and humiliated and keep its mouth shut and just listen for a while.

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  Media, Mouths, Should

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• The media here is the opposition party. They don't understand this country. They still do not understand why Donald Trump is the president of the United States.

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  Country, Party, Media

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• Why aren't Democrats voting against President [Donald] Trump's cabinet nominees en masse? Is it because they're just a bunch soft-headed Beltway lifers who don't understand that the base is pissed and wants them to fight fight fight?

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  Fighting, Voting, President

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• I watch CNN, it's so much anger and hatred and just the hatred.

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  Cnn, Hatred, Watches

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• The reporting is fake. Look, look...You know what it is? Here's the thing. The public isn't - you know, they read newspapers, they see television, they watch. They don't know if it's true or false because they're not involved.But I'm involved. So I know when you're telling the truth or when you're not. I just see many, many untruthful things.

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  Fake, True Or False, Watches

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