Word: blamed
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...resentment, bigotry and reaction. But it appeals to working class Americans who fear for their jobs and for their future. The promise of international trade and future growth is lost on those Americans who see their old jobs disappearing. In this climate men and women look to someone to blame. A man like Pat Buchanan shows them...
Buchanan's conservatism feeds on fear and derision. "You're not doing well? Blame the immigrant who took your job, the New York Jew, 'Bou-Bou Ghali' (I kid you not--his term), the countries with which we trade and the liberals who dilute the American soul." It is the conservatism of the opportunist, and it builds nothing...
...Drawing large and responsive crowds in New Hampshire, Alexander sharpened his "compassionate conservative" pitch, promising to "get Washington off our backs, and us off our butts." If parents don't like their kids seeing trashy talk shows and R-rated movies on cable, he says, they shouldn't just blame Hollywood; they should "turn off the TV and read to your kids." He would abolish the Department of Education (a move he never mentioned when he was running the place) and return Medicaid, the health program for the poor and disabled, to the states. He wants welfare to be administered...
...story and music alone are enough the grab the attention and emotions of the audience. However, something got lost on the road from New York's polished production to Boston's small stage. Overzealousness and melodrama drown the sincere intentions of the author. And yet, it is hard to blame the actors for their elaborate histrionics--they are dealing with an issue which has dominated the feelings and beliefs of an entire country...
Pipher's view--and what, no doubt, helps make her work so popular--is that, for the most part, the culture, not the parents, are to blame. Pipher points out that girls enter junior high school faced with daunting magazine and movie images of glossy, thin, perfect women. She argues that pop culture is saturated with sex; violence against women is rampant; and drugs and alcohol are far more accessible than they were during her 1950s girlhood in a small Nebraska town. "I don't think the past was idyllic," says Pipher, 48, a mother of two whose husband...