The evangelicals. . . . If all they want is gold Cadillacs and sex and so on, no big problem.

I do not feel that we should set up PEOPLE as "models"; rather actions, thoughts, principles.

I don't like the intellectual label.

Control of thought is more important for governments that are free and popular than for despotic and military states. The logic is straightforward: a despotic state can control its domestic enemies by force, but as the state loses this weapon, other devices are required to prevent the ignorant masses from interfering with public affairs, which are none of their business… the public are to be observers, not participants, consumers of ideology as well as products.

The Republican establishment, the mainstream corporate financial wealth, is getting to a point where it can't control the base it's mobilized.

I don't think that any deal was needed: Iran was not a threat. Even if Iran were a threat, there was a very easy way to handle it - by establishing a Middle East Nuclear Weapons Free Zone, which is something that nearly everyone in the world wants.

Since James Madison day (and long before), there have been constant struggles over "democratic governance".