Word: disrespectfulness
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...attributed its occurrence to instances when "you give authority to another person's erroneous concepts and disrespect the truth that you already know...
...example, and that they hate to pay taxes. If there's anything major he doesn't "get," it's that in a hyperdemocracy, "getting it" can be self-defeating. The voters demand slavish obedience, but the more they receive it, the less they respect it. Has this sort of disrespect reached such a level as to be actually auspicious for a politician who leads rather than follows? It is hard to say. Few politicians seem inclined to conduct the experiment...
...roommates are the skeptical sort who have developed, over the past two-and-a-half years, a healthy disrespect for Ivy League men's basketball. Accustomed by years of sports watching to wham-bam-thank-you-ma'am NBA dunks and other SportsCenter highlights, they scoff at the idea of serious competition in the Ancient Eight...
...Republican proposals to pluck children from their indigent mothers and lock them up in orphanages turn voters against G.O.P. ideas for welfare reform. Meanwhile, radicals like Senator Jesse Helms take over the G.O.P.'s foreign policy and defense strategy, riling allied countries with their nativism and voters with their disrespect for the Commander in Chief. Then the G.O.P.'s attempts to deliver on the tax cuts and other promises of the "Contract with America" threaten to aggravate the budget deficit, sending stock markets into a downward spiral. In the end, G.O.P. extremists drive their party so far to the right...
Even the most ardent Democrat must admit that open disrespect for the United States armed forces represents a dubious qualification to become the Commander in chief of those armed forces...