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The hollowing out of the heartland was good for Walmart's bottom line: its slogan might have been an amoral maxim attributed to Lenin - 'The worse, the better.'

~George Packer

Topics: Attributed Been Better Bottom Bottom Line Good Lenin Line Maxim Might Out Slogan Walmart Worse

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Together, Apple and Walmart represent the intense separation of American life into blue and red, rich and poor, overpriced and undersold, hyperconnected and left behind.

~George Packer

Topics: American American Life Apple Behind Blue Intense Left Life Poor Red Represent Rich Separation Together Walmart

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Part of the mystique of blogs is their protean quality: They work both sides of the divide between politics and media, further blurring the already fuzzy distinctions between reporter, pundit, political operative, activist, and citizen.

~George Packer

Topics: Activist Between Blogs Both Both Sides Citizen Distinctions Divide Further Fuzzy Media Mystique Operative Part Political Politics Quality Reporter Sides Work

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The constellation of opinion called the blogosphere consists, like the stars themselves, partly of gases. This is what makes blogs addictive - that is, both pleasurable and destructive: They're so easy to consume and so endlessly available.

~George Packer

Topics: Addictive Available Blogs Both Consists Consume Destructive Easy Endlessly Gases Like Makes Opinion Partly Pleasurable Stars Themselves

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A curious thing about this rarefied world is that bloggers are almost unfailingly contemptuous toward everyone except one another.

~George Packer

Topics: About Almost Another Bloggers Curious Everyone Except Thing Toward World

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Over the years, America had become more like Wal-Mart. It had gotten cheap. Prices were lower, and wages were lower. There were fewer union factory jobs and more part-time jobs as greeters.

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Topics: America Become Cheap Factory Fewer Gotten Had Jobs Like Lower More Over Part-Time Prices Union Wages Wal-Mart Were Years

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By the fall of 2007, my last remaining Iraqi friend in Baghdad had left. Once he was gone, my connection to the country and the war began to thin, even as the terror diminished. I missed the improvement that came with the surge, and so, in my nervous system, I never quite registered it.

~George Packer

Topics: Baghdad Began Came Connection Country Diminished Even Fall Friend Gone Had He Improvement Iraqi Last Left Missed Nervous Nervous System Never Once Quite Registered Remaining Surge System Terror Thin War

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On foreign policy, Obama has talked softly and carried a big stick.

~George Packer

Topics: Big Carried Foreign Foreign Policy Obama Policy Softly Stick Talked

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American wars in Muslim countries created some extremists and inflamed many more while producing a security vacuum that allowed them to wreak mayhem.

~George Packer

Topics: Allowed American Countries Created Extremists Inflamed Many Mayhem More Muslim Producing Security Some Them Vacuum Wars While

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The base of the party, the middle-aged white working class, has suffered at least as much as any demographic group because of globalization, low-wage immigrant labor, and free trade. Trump sensed the rage that flared from this pain and made it the fuel of his campaign.

~George Packer

Topics: Any Base Because Campaign Class Demographic Free Free Trade Fuel Globalization Group His Immigrant Labor Least Made Middle-Aged Much Pain Party Rage Sensed Suffered Trade Trump White Working Working Class

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Novelist

Born: August 13th, 1960

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