Word: absolutist
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...democracy that allows absolutist thinkers like Hersh to handle history the way Geraldo handles news is the same democracy that forces leaders to compromise consistently as they work toward important goals. Hersh's version of the truth seems to come from a mind as immoral as those he rails against. JIM MURPHY Senior Broadcast Producer, 48 Hours CBS News New York City
...cultlike faith. Their crime? Daring to want a more sophisticated intellectual life than their religion allows. After being raised in the suffocating sweetness of family and faith, they find themselves cast out, and although they relish their escape and freedom, a part of them will always ache for that absolutist belonging. Next time you write about Mormonism, look at all sides of this unusual, politically powerful and often cruel religion. SEAN GARDNER Santa...
...First Amendment business out of the way. I happen to be a First Amendment absolutist who believes in the right to free speech with no exceptions. All right, I'll admit that I'm on record as advocating that people who show other people slides of their trip to Europe should be arrested and put in jail for a very long time. We all have our limits...
Zyuganov can be enigmatic and vague when it suits his purposes, but his books and articles reveal a moral absolutist who sees Russia in a death struggle with the U.S. When George Bush spoke of a new world order, Zyuganov labeled the idea "geopolitical sabotage," nothing but a plot to "establish the West's global supremacy." Capitalism, Zyuganov has written, "doesn't fit in our flesh and blood, in our everyday life, in our habits and in the mentality of our society...
...After all, any reasonable conservative ought to prefer a vaguely moderate, above-politics President Powell to another four years of President Clinton. That is why Republican Brahmins are busy making wonderfully subtle distinctions about Powell's support for affirmative action--an issue they formerly saw in stark, absolutist terms. It is why even Ralph Reed, front man for Pat Robertson's Christian Coalition, is making cautiously friendly noises about a man who says brazenly that he is "pro-choice" on abortion...