Word: partisanship
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...time. He was writing about America's chaotic years before the Civil War; this excerpt is from his classic work The Disruption of American Democracy, published in 1948. For some students of today's politics, there are alarming echoes. The issues are different, but a paralyzing partisanship is stronger today than at any other time in the past 30 years, fanned daily by the President and the six announced Democratic contenders, whose followers pick up on the rancorous debate and drag it into Congress's deliberations...
...researchers studied the 1980 presidential campaign, concentrating on cover age by U.P.I. and United Press International. "We went through CBS and U.P.I. copy Line by line, checking for any telltale signs of partisanship. The results do not support theories of liberal bias. CBS and U.P.I, passed with honors." Rather was not yet the anchorman, but looking back at his campaign coverage, Robin son finds Rather was more analytical than Cronkite but "not necessarily more liberal." Robinson is far from a delirious fan of the press, which he considers "sensational at times, petty on occasion, superficial almost always," but does believe...
President Reagan delivered a stirring address on the menace in Central America. Unfortunately, the message did not penetrate congressional partisanship. In his rebuttal, Senator Christopher Dodd alluded to Reagan's not "going with the tide of history." The Senator prefers to forget Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, the East bloc countries and the surrogate Communist nations in our own hemisphere...
...second term to fulfill his conservative agenda. Just last week, presidential counselor Edwin Meese III told reporters that if Reagan "had to make the decision today, he would definitely plan to run." So why is the President delaying his announcement till Labor Day? Because the longer he eschews partisanship, the longer he appears presidential--a pointed contrast to the half-dozen Democratic "cattle" purveying their wares around the country in a manner than can only be called sheepish...
...your report on mainline Protestant church leaders being under fire for political partisanship, it is worthy to note that their chief critic, the Institute on Religion and Democracy, receives almost 90% of its funding from foundations that have also given money to dozens of highly conservative political organizations. Rather than being viewed as "The Little Institute Facing Goliath," the matter might more appropriately be described as church leadership struggling against the Goliath-like alliance of America's corporate and private wealth...