Word: distrusts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Although the ability to criticize our incumbent and potential leaders is what keeps democracy and newspapers alive, this distrust can backfire. Disillusioned voters become so habitually suspicious that they find fault with any decision a politician makes, and rush to support a candidate with no platform simply because a person who makes no promises tells no lies...
Savior politics occurs when distrust of the electoral system reaches a point where only a simple "truth teller" can put an end to the suspicion. The pervasive fear of communists in the late 1940s and early '50s bred many petty "saviors" who were going to rescue Hollywood, or the radio industry, or publishing. MacArthur and McCarthy were the supersaviors atop this pyramid of subordinate redeemers...
Some of this isolation from the public has proceeded from pundits misinterpreting the significance of Barry Goldwater's run for president in 1964. Conservatives, knowing the strength of their movement, came gradually; to distrust the mainstream press which dismissed conservatism as irrelevant...
...people by this time next year. I certainly hope that doesn't occur. If the demands for service and the demands for change go up -- and they are clearly going to go up -- and your resources to deliver those services go down, there is going to be further distrust and disbelief in the community...
...keep being recalled, like defective cars. So our Cassandras have to try harder. The prospect of AIDS unchecked gets more attention than the ever growing life expectancy, and gene technology suggests nefarious experiments with life itself as much as dramatic new ways of preventing disease. We have come to distrust science. The public even seems bored with space travel, although in hindsight it may prove to be, along with the computer, the most important achievement of our century...