Jeff Sharlet Quotes
Whoever is holding the power says, "Yeah, let's keep things civil and quiet." Whoever's outside say's, "No, I'm not going to keep things civil and quiet, I'm going to bang on the door."
The Cold War was really the great struggle of the 20th Century and it shaped American political life from top to bottom.
What the Cold War did was provide a fairly clearly defined enemy and it's easy to organize around that.
Elite fundamentalism has always going to be involved with a certain set of conservative interests, but certainly not exclusively Republican.
Fundamentalism is a 20th-century phenomenon, but that kind of religious fervor actually has not always been associated with conservative goals.
There are real radical Muslim groups out there that really are pretty villainous. You don't have to make them up.
Liberals were just as engaged and using the rhetoric of a sort of a battle with the Soviets and with Communism in general, with an evil empire.
The Family is the oldest and arguably most influential religious political organization in Washington.
You can recruit the populace conservatism for the interests of corporate conservatism that the two things can be married into one unholy union.
What's interesting is the populace movement of fundamentalism is starting to mirror that approach that elite fundamentalism has long had of trying to have influence across the political spectrum.
