Great Painful Truths

Voters: 10   Comments: 3
Started by: DoeFromTO on July 5, 2008

Description: Deepak Chopra, in a recent post on HuffingtonPost.com, wrote about why political lies work. He went on to acknowledge that given our current political climate, there are some great painful truths that cannot be safely uttered in public. There must be more …. ( Edited by DoeFromTO )  

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mdudlik's picks

1. Religion really is the opium of the people
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aaronmalys's picks

1. Religion really is the opium of the people
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webdesign's picks

1. Drugs aren't going away, no matter how many crusades are mounted against them
2. Deepak Chopra is in it for the money
3. The mass of men lead lives of quiet despair (Thoreau)
4. Lobbyism and undue influence will never go away
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mmullins's picks

1. Drugs aren't going away, no matter how many crusades are mounted against them
2. Political scrutiny of female political candidates inevitably leads to charges of sexism
3. The mass of men lead lives of quiet despair (Thoreau)
4. It's immoral to force a politician to prove he loves God in public.
5. Bread and circuses have worked to distract the masses since ancient Rome
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Nelson's picks

1. Religion really is the opium of the people
2. The death penalty is barbaric and doesn't work
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DoeFromTO's picks

1. Lobbyism and undue influence will never go away
2. No problem is so big that Washington can't find a way to postpone facing it.
3. Western democracy panders to the masses once every few years but is run on a day-to-day basis by privileged elites.
4. Drugs aren't going away, no matter how many crusades are mounted against them
5. It's immoral to force a politician to prove he loves God in public.
6. The death penalty is barbaric and doesn't work
7. Political scrutiny of female political candidates inevitably leads to charges of sexism
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Chantastic22's picks

1. No problem is so big that Washington can't find a way to postpone facing it.
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MintFreak's picks

1. No problem is so big that Washington can't find a way to postpone facing it.
2. It's immoral to force a politician to prove he loves God in public.
3. The death penalty is barbaric and doesn't work
4. Drugs aren't going away, no matter how many crusades are mounted against them
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dprecosk's picks

1. Religion really is the opium of the people
2. The mass of men lead lives of quiet despair (Thoreau)
3. Deepak Chopra is in it for the money
4. Bread and circuses have worked to distract the masses since ancient Rome
5. Attack ads work
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plantt's picks

1. Western democracy panders to the masses once every few years but is run on a day-to-day basis by privileged elites.
2. No problem is so big that Washington can't find a way to postpone facing it.
3. Drugs aren't going away, no matter how many crusades are mounted against them
4. It's immoral to force a politician to prove he loves God in public.
5. The death penalty is barbaric and doesn't work
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