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...were perhaps more shocking than those of the Confederacy because the Germans regressed from modernity to primitive cruelty. In the 1860s, the South had not yet progressed to a modern mindset. Even a century later, it was painfully obvious that the South had made few steps away from its abject backwardness. Just a generation ago, the South shocked the entire world with its inhuman brutality-footage of redneck goons attacking peaceable black men, women and children with pressurized fire hoses and police dogs was broad-cast to millions...
...argument for equal distribution of pain may be seriously misguided in this case, for several reasons. The first is that the BIA, which makes up 26% of the Interior Department's budget, would absorb 45% of the department's overall reductions. The second has to do with the Indians' abject destitution. Despite the arrival of gambling facilities on reservations, which has enriched a handful of tribes and made a few dozen more comfortable, a third of the country's 2 million Native Americans live below the poverty line. On the reservations, where per capita income averages $4,500, half...
...existence is as fragile as the development of human character. The greatest police force in the world cannot protect us from those who have been "bent" enough to murder. Our only hope is to stop the bending of human lives by one of the most destructive forces on earth: abject poverty. Every day poverty kills innocent children at many times the rate of Hitler's death camps and permanently disables 10 for each one who dies. Children and adults alike are warped in this overlooked carnage...
...past 15 years, India has become the world's largest reservoir of live kidney donors. In the 1980s the trade was centered in Bombay, but after a crackdown it spread to other areas, specifically the Madras suburb of Villivakkam, popularly known as ``Kidneyvakkam.'' Several thousand people living in abject poverty in Villivakkam have sold their kidneys. In a typical instance, Rani Saravanan said she had decided to have a kidney removed to obtain cash to feed her family and pay debts...
...about anything to satisfy voters. Since the 1960s, the number of Americans expressing trust in Washington has dropped from around 70% to near 20%. This is commonly interpreted as a judgment against the growing power of special-interest lobbyists. But it could also be a reaction against the increasingly abject spinelessness of politicians, a byproduct of the very same trend. Indeed, the one clear exception to the number's downward drift are the Reagan years. Aaron says, "Even Democrats like me, who believed Ronald Reagan was a malign force, respected him, because, damn it, there were things he really stood...