Word: distrusters
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...government it produced would have to hang on for dear life. Labor won the election, but it did not win the country, and it only barely won control of the House of Commons. The outcome almost too neatly balanced growing dissatisfaction and boredom with the Tories against lingering distrust of the socialists...
Self-Swindlers. Unfortunately, the deceptions can sometimes be disastrous. In Italy, Barzini argues, "ordinary people must usually choose between the unrestrained expression of counterfeit emotions and the controlled expression of real ones." The inevitable result is automatic distrust of idealism, and a cynicism so widespread that "there is a large part of reality the realistic Italian never grasps...
...Party seemed more interested in ideological and moral purity than in political victory, and it was becoming increasingly clear that racial distrust and bureaucratic pettiness within the Party were making impossible an effective political effort on the national level...
...they are racists. As one active member of AAAAS put it, "I will stand on the firing line with anyone who will stand on the firing line with me." But again, few believe that any white person really will stand on the firing line. And if he will, they distrust his motives. Whites, they say, are attracted to the civil rights movement because they feel guilty, and will leave when that sense of guilt is alleviated...
...This distrust of white motives is behind statements like that of the Negro at the House seminar. What he was saying, in part, was that whites have no real stake in the movement, and so will not go beyond the "obviously moral" methods of non-violent protest. But there was more to his statement. There was also a deep-seated suspicion of paternalism on the part of many white volunteers...