It's not a matter of public relations and rhetorical style but of actions. It's the actions and policies under George W.Bush administration that have left the US government remarkably isolated, feared and often hated to an extent with no historical precedent.

All you have to do is read the business literature. In the 1930s they were very frightened and they were concerned about how the rising power of the masses was hazardous to industrialists.

Destruction of the environment is not only rational; it's exactly what you're taught to do in college.

Language is a weapon of politicians, but language is a weapon in much of human affairs.

One of the greatest dangers is secular religion - state worship.

I think a decent society should protect rights to private property within limits, but not concentrations of private power that infringe on the freedom and rights of others, including exploitation of labor, and that convert any democratic forms into what have been called sometimes "hierarchical democracies," like ours, in which some have vastly greater influence over public policy than others. Spelling all of this out is a complex matter that raises many issue and problems that are impossible to address here.

You can go into the Library of Congress and find information on just about anything, but that doesn't do you much good unless you know what you are looking for.