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If we can keep the Obama electoral coalition together and going to the polls, we can enable the Republican Party to disintegrate into one marginalized (@30% vote share) party, and another clutch of conservative but reason-based Republicans looking for a home.

Matthew Yglesias » The Real Story on Bankster Political Influence 2009

But it is not movies like The Muppets that those of us in the reason-based community fear, but the values of selfish, rampant consumerism and corporatism pushed by organizations, like say, the Media Research Center.

Cliff Schecter: When Will Culture Warriors Find Their Rainbow Connection? Cliff Schecter 2011

Science/Technology and Rationality: Modernity has negated the role of philosophical thinking and glorified reason-based thinking.

Pankaj Jain, Ph.D.: Hinduism And Modernity Ph.D. Pankaj Jain 2011

But it is not movies like The Muppets that those of us in the reason-based community fear, but the values of selfish, rampant consumerism and corporatism pushed by organizations, like say, the Media Research Center.

Cliff Schecter: When Will Culture Warriors Find Their Rainbow Connection? Cliff Schecter 2011

But it is not movies like The Muppets that those of us in the reason-based community fear, but the values of selfish, rampant consumerism and corporatism pushed by organizations, like say, the Media Research Center.

Cliff Schecter: When Will Culture Warriors Find Their Rainbow Connection? Cliff Schecter 2011

Yet Progressives either ignore these voters, or keep trying to reach them in the wrong way by telling people how stupid they are for believing these lies, and shoving reason-based evidence in their face to prove it.

Lara M. Gardner: Progressives Must Change Lara M. Gardner 2010

Science/Technology and Rationality: Modernity has negated the role of philosophical thinking and glorified reason-based thinking.

Pankaj Jain, Ph.D.: Hinduism And Modernity Ph.D. Pankaj Jain 2011

Most of them are nothing more than tired, meretritious assertions that have been thoroughly debunked over and over again by the "reason-based community" (G. Bush's term for the community that he assiduously avoids associating himself with).

Harlan Ellison on God 2009

The inimitable Glenn Greenwald put it best when discussing his own book: I wrote the book for the same reason I blog: because I believe that arguments can be advanced, evidence marshaled and facts revealed which can serve as an antidote to our deeply dysfunctional political discourse and, through reason-based (though impassioned) persuasion, constructively influence our political process.

Why the book matters 2008

The inimitable Glenn Greenwald put it best when discussing his own book: I wrote the book for the same reason I blog: because I believe that arguments can be advanced, evidence marshaled and facts revealed which can serve as an antidote to our deeply dysfunctional political discourse and, through reason-based (though impassioned) persuasion, constructively influence our political process.

Why the book matters 2008