Word: fatuous
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...wanted all along is one thorough recount. It is the Bush side that has been purposely running out the clock. There are actual, substantive disputes here too, of course. Reasonable people can differ about dimpled chads, and even about recount deadlines. And yes, the Gore side has made fatuous arguments of its own. But the Republicans' campaign to delegitimize Gore's efforts has been dishonest even by prevailing standards...
...rarefied, peculiar idea. Fatuous? No. The more I thought about it, the more it seemed a noble...
Honorable mention would go to the fatuous politicization of absolutely everything (if you order a steak, it's political), the apparent disappearance of world war, the moronization of popular music, the drug saturation, the demonization of tobacco, the legitimization of gay identity and culture, the mass arrival of blacks in the American middle class and positions of real power, the triumph of multiculturalism and politicial correctness as standards that supersede even the U.S. Constitution (the guarantee of freedom of speech, for example...
...process, embracing a hate crimes bill for the admittedly sound political reason that - in a world governed by simple-minded sound bite - to come out against a hate crime law is to seem guilty of (anti-gay, anti-minority) hate oneself. The retreat of principle before political correctness and fatuous self-congratulation may be irreversible in America. Soft fascism advances under the banner of Feelings...
Regarding China's cultural revolution, for example: It took time for the truth to catch up with the fatuous Maoist story line, much accepted at the time by American and European leftists, who projected their own social fantasies upon Mao's monstrously destructive project. It is important to know what really happened in China during those years...