Word: hating
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There's only one candidate in this race who inspires any passion. Love him or hate him (I hate him), there's only one candidate in this field who seems to engender respect from the voters. And it's the success of his candidacy that explains what Americans hate so much about the other politicians...
Where to begin? Blacks, Jews, women, homosexuals--which continuously discriminated-against group is at the top of his hate list? The common and unfortunate thread uniting all these groups is that, despite decades of struggling for equality, they continue to evoke resentment and fear from portions of the population. It is through this window of opportunity that the winds of Buchananism blow through our society. (The statements that follow were detailed in a 1993 report of the Anti-Defamation League...
...sounded by most of Alexander's rival candidates for President and does not account for his rise. Instead, his trick has been to turn a liability (he has little money for TV ads) into something of an asset (he isn't running those attack ads that voters say they hate.) What's more, Alexander retains this Mr. Clean image even while running a campaign that is subtly negative. As Dole points out, Alexander was the first of the G.O.P. candidates to run an attack ad, back in September, against Pete Wilson, whom he accused of sins ranging from tax increases...
...related but distinctly different issue from class. Let's call it paths. The U.S. is unusual for how widespread the preoccupation is with individual ambition. Classes are economic end points; paths are routes to success into which the population divides itself. In America it's the paths that hate one another, not the classes...
SENATOR ALAN SIMPSON HAS PROPOSED legislation that would sharply reduce the number of foreign skilled and professional workers who can enter the U.S. [BUSINESS, Feb. 5]. If computer-company executives hate the Simpson bill out of a genuine fear of a technical-talent shortage, the solution is obvious: raise the salaries of computer professionals. In my 30 years as a physicist working in industrial R. and D., I have never seen a genuine, sustained shortage of engineers or scientists in this country. However, I have seen corporate-financed propaganda campaigns with dire predictions of America's coming shortage of high...