There are some very general ideas that people can keep in mind; they're kind of truisms. It's only worth mentioning them because they're always denied.

Every time a candidate came up from the base, that is with popular support, the Republican establishment went into high gear to destroy them with massive propaganda attack ads and so on. It was one after another, each one crazier than the last.

The public is not to see where power lies, how it shapes policy, and for what ends. Rather, people are to hate and fear one another.

In the pre-capitalist world, everyone had a place. It might not have been a very nice place, even maybe a horrible place, but at least they had some place in the spectrum of the society and they had some kind of a right to live in the place. Now that's inconsistent with capitalism, which denies the right to live. You have only the right to remain on the labour market.

If [Barack] Obama or the boss or the newspapers or anyone else tells you they're doing this, that, or the other thing, dismiss it or assume the opposite is true, which it often is.

Farming out atrocities to paramilitaries is standard operating procedure.

Iraqi commandos landed at George W. Bush's compound, assassinated him, and dumped his body in the Atlantic.