Word: disaffectedness
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Schools, labor unions and other institutions that once educated young people about voting have also fallen down on the job. In a 1989 survey of 1,006 youths by People for the American Way, only 12% rated voting as a basic tenet of good citizenship. "There's a whole generation...
As a result, Republican women are feeling disaffected. "As we get closer to the demise of Roe, frustration is intensifying," says Republican political consultant Eileen Padberg. Of the more than 50 Republican women who are running for congressional and state offices this year, more than 75% are abortion-rights advocates...
In some other life Jerry Brown must have been born in New York City. Unlike Clinton, he immediately navigated the city's politics with the Zen of a cabdriver weaving his way around potholes. "California is the hurly-burly closest to New York," he explained. He defined his constituency and...
"We felt it was an especially appropriate time when more and more people are marginalized, there are more people poor, disaffected, on the streets," Harvie said.
Despite the chaos, many voters are identifying with Brown as the only candidate as disaffected as they are. His 13% flat-tax proposal with deductions only for mortgage interest, rent and charitable deductions, though deeply flawed, has found an audience among those who feel like chumps every April 15. His...