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The premise of my book is that everyone is a bit ideological to some extent. Everyone comes from a ideological perspective.

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Jonah Goldberg
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: March 21
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Jonah Jacob Goldberg
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If you think shrinking government and getting it less involved in your life is a hallmark of tyranny it is only because you are either grotesquely ignorant or because you subscribe to a statist ideology that believes the expansion of the state is the expansion of liberty.
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I'd like to know why sociologists can't decide whether movie sex and violence has any effect on children, but there's a universal consensus that even a glimpse of a Camel will force children to become lifelong smokers.
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Of course, it's a mystery to me why any American who can't be bothered to pay attention to politics unless Pamela Anderson is discussing it should be welcome in that conversation.
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I think what we're seeing on a lot of parts of the right is people bending their positions and their principles on account of the fact that Donald Trump won.
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Conservatives value economic liberty and moral security, while the liberal values economic security and moral liberty.
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We are a species that must try to impose and find systems - systems of thought, ways of organizing and categorizing reality.
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Liberals are Nazis, and Nazis are liberals. And if you don't agree with me, you're a Nazi too.
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Progressivism, liberalism, or whatever you want to call it has become an ideology of power. So long as liberals hold it, principles don't matter.
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Keep in mind that Eric Alterman is media critic for The Nation-a hysterically left-wing magazine dedicated to the proposition that corporate America, U.S. foreign policy and the Republican Party are criminal, racist or both. The simple reality is that, for him, the Democratic Party is far too conservative.
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I think there needs to be a meeting to set an agenda for more meetings about meetings.
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Not reassuring when weathermen say 'Today will be terrible but don't worry it won't be as terrible as tomorrow or Friday.
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A lot of the things that Trump needs to do to be a popular president requires annoying his biggest fans.
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You can see why the Marxist left would resist the idea that Hitler was a revolutionary. Because if he was, then either Hitler was a force for good, or revolutions can be bad.
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In crude Marxist terms, liberals have a theory of infallible government that is constantly at war with the reality of life.
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I like vengeance as much as the next guy, if the next guy likes vengeance a whole lot.
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And in the minds of progressives you are free to live anyway you want so long as it's progressive.
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And, of course, liberals see no problem with using the government to impose their cultural beliefs on others they just won't admit that's what they're doing.
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John Kerry is a sphincter. Okay, that's a bit juvenile.
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Capitalism is the greatest system ever created for alleviating general human misery, and yet it breeds ingratitude.
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In many respects fascism not only is here but has been here for nearly a century. For what we call liberalism--the refurbished edifice of American Progressivism--is in fact a descendant and manifestation of fascism.
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