Word: dismissiveness
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...course, the easiest way to dismiss the Heaven's Gate cult is to write them off as brainwashed lunatics. But given the anecdotal evidence, it seems that many members of Heaven's Gate were not simply weak and deluded souls...
Understanding the ramifications of the DNC's overaggressive fundraising tactics involves learning the intricacies of campaign finance laws and the complex ties that the DNC contributors in question had with various Southeast Asian interests. These complications made it easy to dismiss the allegations as just another example of relatively innocuous unethical behavior by members of the Clinton administration...
Regardless of all of these shortcomings, however, there is another, purely practical reason to dismiss libertarianism--the reason why the American people dismiss it. Contemplate for a few moments what it would be like to live in a truly libertarian society (a lovely and noxious oxymoron). Even the most self-congratulatory Harvard student would find it unrewarding and destructive. I hope...
Clearly, this proposal is not currently mainstream, nor is there any indication that it is swimming thither. But we should not dismiss its prospective import, nor should we lose any time in pointing out its fundamental flaws. We should not react to undesirable trends in the rulings of the Supreme Court by advancing proposals which would undermine the basic fabric of American democracy. As Hamilton wrote, our Republic is and must be based on the conviction that "the interpretation of the laws is the proper and peculiar province of the courts...
Those who dismiss Jiang as a transitional chief say he has no charisma, no military experience, no long career as a revolutionary fighter. In other words, he's not Deng. But none of the other members of China's collective leadership are either. Today's top Politburo members are bureaucrats and engineers. In Soviet terms, Jiang would not even be Nikita Khrushchev; rather, he's more like Leonid Brezhnev. The others are no different, and that works in two ways. They may have no more claim to greatness than Jiang, but now that Deng is gone they can easily...