Word: moralisms
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...civil liberties” by saying “40,000 children die every day of malnutrition” is at best a non-sequitur and at worst dangerous and trivializing. For every injustice, there will always be something greater, and ranking them on a scale of acceptable moral outrage is nearly meaningless. Just because our standard of living is astronomically high compared to 86 percent of the world doesn’t mean that we can’t demand better. We have every right to feel desperation and outrage at our country...
...cultural issues—if we reign in the party’s social liberalism. Exit polls showed that a majority of voters disapproved of Bush’s record on Iraq, tax cuts and the economy, but as many Americans based their vote on “moral values”—mainly socially conservative values—as on the economy or terrorism. Ohio was the state hit hardest by the job slump, but its voters put Bush over...
...want the government to dictate their private lives. Progressives agree—that’s why we think the government has no business telling you whom you can marry or controlling your reproductive rights. Progressives believe that an equal opportunity is every child’s moral right and that we must give a helping hand to those working hard just to get by. Whether they’re struggling to make ends meet in a red state or a blue state, working Americans everywhere want their family healthy and housed and they want their kids...
...Democrats have against the Republican agenda is five votes in the Senate, it is disconcerting that the president feels that he has a mandate to pursue highly controversial issues that were not fully discussed at the national level. People voted overwhelmingly for Bush because he seemed to have strong moral convictions and a tough stance on terror, not because they necessarily agreed with his positions on the tax code and social security. These issues were marginalized during the campaigns and the debates, which focused on health care, education, the war on terror, social issues and Iraq. Bush must reach across...
...shocked or as blas as we want to be about the anonymous campus couplings he describes. "In my mind, it's just what's there," he says. "I must say, I pride myself on the fact that I don't think anybody can find a political agenda, a moral agenda. I insist that I am objective." Up to a point, that is--he'll bend the truth for the sake of a good line. "I had a groupie at the end deliver what I thought was a quite cogent remark," he recalls. "'Every girl wants to f___ a star. Every...