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	<description>This blog seeks to raise public awareness of rankism.</description>
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		<title>Blueprint for a Majority Third Party</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We picture the political spectrum as a line running from Left to Right, liberal to conservative, Democrat to Republican. For much of our history, the middle was inhabited by conservative Democrats and liberal Republicans. By forging a compromise with centrists, one party or the other could muster enough support to legislate and govern. Achieving a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.breakingranks.net/weblog/archives/687</link>
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		<title>Dignity Is Our Destiny (Or, what is rankism and why do we “do” it?)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Rankism is what people who think they’re Somebodies do to people they take for nobodies.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.breakingranks.net/weblog/archives/682</link>
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		<title>From Hate to Love</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Let’s stop hurting each other. You go first. – Alta
It should be obvious by now that the call for people to love one another—whether in church or in song—carries little weight. Evidently, something keeps us from entering the house of love through the front door. Perhaps we should  try the back.
When someone insults our [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.breakingranks.net/weblog/archives/677</link>
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		<title>From Enmity to Comity: Restoring Civility and Pride to American Life</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Let’s stop hurting each other. You go first. – Alta
The twentieth century saw many nations consumed by their own enmity. Hatred is inflammatory, and it has now reached a level where to stoke it, from either the Left or the Right, is incendiary. Beyond a certain level, public hatred sours personal relationships. In societies such [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.breakingranks.net/weblog/archives/672</link>
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		<title>Obama’s Nobel Honors His Dignitarian Politics</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Some will say that Barack Obama’s Nobel Prize is premature. “What has he done?” they’ll ask. 
Obama got the prize not for doing, but for being. Not for making peace, but for exemplifying something new on the world stage&#8211;the politics of dignity.
The Nobel Committee has simply made explicit what many have sensed. President Obama is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.breakingranks.net/weblog/archives/665</link>
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		<title>On the Road: Why Do We Want To Travel?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We do not travel to get away from it all. Travel fails as escape but it succeeds as confrontation--confrontation with our old selves that, deprived of their usual confirmatory surroundings, may yield to a new one.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.breakingranks.net/weblog/archives/654</link>
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		<title>How Nobodies Can Be Somebodies (FAQs re The Dignity Movement against Rankism)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Following in the footsteps of uppity women, expect to see more uppity nobodies as the dignity movement gains momentum.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.breakingranks.net/weblog/archives/648</link>
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		<title>Why Do We Want To Be Famous?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I’m gonna live forever.
I’m gonna learn how to fly – high!
I feel it comin’ together.
People will see me and die. Fame!
I’m gonna make it to Heaven.
Light up the sky like a flame; fame!
I’m gonna live forever.
Baby, remember my name.
		– From the musical Fame
I hope to persuade you that the seemingly frivolous title question holds a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.breakingranks.net/weblog/archives/645</link>
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		<title>Must Love End?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Refreshed, love has as many lives as a cat.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.breakingranks.net/weblog/archives/642</link>
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		<title>Love Unrequited (but not Barren)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[No suitor wants to admit it, but those who don’t return our love often give us something as valuable as those who do.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.breakingranks.net/weblog/archives/633</link>
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