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...twin ideals that form the basis of the American experiment: that rights reside in the individual rather than with social or ethnic classes and that all who come to these shores can be assimilated by an open society that transforms disparate peoples into Americans. Instead there is a new paradigm that emphasizes the racial and ethnic diversity of American citizens, of the many cultures that have converged here, each valuable in its own right and deserving of study and respect...
These efforts constitute a direct attack on the choices of ANGSTers. I call on all ne'erdowell seniors to resist the dominant paradigm created by HUBRIS. We must affirm and defend our chosen indecision! We must unite, better to combat our rivals, and to promote our alternative way of life--or lack thereof...
...past year or so, a group of conservative and liberal activists have been meeting quietly for dinner in Washington. Given the guest list, one might expect this parley to produce the sort of verbal food fight that typifies American political debate and alienates so many voters. But the New Paradigm Society, as the participants call their group, isn't looking for arguments; it is searching for bipartisan solutions to America's problems. The fact that they meet at all suggests a sort of harmonic convergence between those who believe that the ideas that powered both the political left and right...
...group's occasional guests is E.J. Dionne, a Washington Post reporter whose new book, Why Americans Hate Politics, is something of a New Paradigm manifesto. Dionne's contention is that the central tenets of both political parties have ossified. Rather than providing genuine solutions to rising crime, declining educational standards and deteriorating race relations, conservatives and liberals offer "false choices" that divide voters in order to maintain power...
...there many opportunities for common ground? Probably not. One of the problems with the new paradigm is that it presumes Americans all want the same things. In a general sense this is true: all people, for example, want a decent wage, a comfortable and safe place to live and better opportunities for their children. But the differences about the means of achieving this dream are so fundamental that the means, in essence, become the ends...