Word: incrementalists
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...many ways more intractable, largely because the criticism is coming from within. Republicans say he lacks direction, negotiating skills and--for the first time in his political career--a clear message that can inspire the faithful. Having come to power preaching revolution, he now presides over an incrementalist institution, holding a paper-thin majority against a popular Democratic President...
Forbes' vision of America is a more radical one than his charmingly goofy smile might suggest. To Forbes, Newt Gingrich is not a revolutionary but an incrementalist, and the Republican budget is just Tax-and-Spend Lite. His flat tax is also an enormous tax cut that he concedes will raise $40 billion less in revenue than the tax system does now; the group Citizens for Tax Justice, a generally liberal think tank, estimates a 17% flat tax would produce a shortfall of $200 billion. And never mind turning matters back to the states: Forbes...
Thanks, Kristy. The Only problem is that desensitization doesn't always work in such a dramatic (or obvious), way. We aren't always aware of how it is affecting us, for a variety of reasons, Desensitization functions in a gradual, incrementalist way, making it difficult to monitor how we're being affected. More fundamentally, none of us are capable of fully escaping from our own subject position. In other words, we can't step outside of ourselves and say, "Ah ha! I see that I have been negatively affected by watching `Pulp Fiction.' I must now watch two hours...
...creative--not for social programs, where his spending is generally generous but his innovations negligible, and not in taxing, where he's maintained the status quo. (His prison-building record could make Sen. Alfonse D'Amato (R-NY) blush, though.) He's called by friend and foe alike an "incrementalist"--not a true reformer...