Word: leftism
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...worth of terrorism, war and misgovernance. And unlike the patrons at the New York preview, many of whom were born with Democratic Party membership in one hand and a silver spoon in the other, Moore doesn’t touch armchair liberalism with a ten foot pole. His leftism comes from, and on behalf of, working class middle America, an America he clearly loves. His dissent is an act of patriotism, and its fierceness takes one’s breath away...
Brandon A. Gayle ’03, president of the Black Students Association, criticized the Harvard Republican Club (HRC) for sponsoring the speech, arguing that the HRC should have known that Horowitz would depart from the topic of leftism and national security to make comments on race...
...supercentrist candidates Gore and Bradley (once considered the toasts of Beverly Hills, but if Beatty should run, perhaps just toast), the leading man whose most recent movie role was that of a Mad Hatter Senator, Jay Bulworth, threatened to inject color and charisma, and a dose of classic leftism, into a thus far pale political season. "The political system is so corrupted, we don't really need a third party. We need a second one," Beatty said, affirming his faith in Jack-and-Bobby liberalism and voicing a fear that America was becoming a big-money "plutocracy...
...Coors Co. isn't alone. The company's socially progressive policies are part of a larger trend. Call it corporate leftism: businesses are adopting policies considered wildly liberal in the political arena. Example: only 62 state and local governments have extended benefits to the unwed partners of employees. But more than 430 U.S. firms have done so. Three out of four FORTUNE 500 firms have diversity programs to help them attract minorities and keep them happy...
...movement's new focus on trade has also bedeviled it. Suddenly some on the environmental left are arguing against one of leftism's cherished convictions--that the U.S. has an obligation to accept large numbers of the people who want to settle here. That's because the same nationalist sentiment that distrusts the free movement of goods--the unrestricted flow, say, of shrimp caught in turtle-killing nets--also tends to distrust the free movement of labor: in other words, immigration...