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How Much Damage Has Eight Years of Conservative Rule Done to Americans' Psyches?

By Mark Klempner, AlterNet. Posted October 29, 2008.


The Bush administration used a politics of fear to diminish our ability to think critically and to erode our capacity to love.
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Mark Klempner is a social commentator, historian and author of The Heart Has Reasons: Holocaust Rescuers and Their Stories of Courage. He would like to thank James McConkey and others who commented on an early version of this piece: Amy Denham, Paul Glover, Gerry McCarthy, Alice McDowell, Nicole Sault and Richard Silverstein.

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