Word: patly
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Examine the politics of disconnection. The 1996 campaign has only hinted at the number of Americans who, disgruntled and disillusioned (even if self-pityingly so), have withdrawn into a passive-aggressive political mode: protest for its own sake. "We're gonna fight until hell freezes over," bellows Pat Buchanan, "and then we're gonna fight on the ice!" Disenchantment, whether idealistic or merely snarling, has produced a permanent American political out group (Buchananites, Perot voters and a much larger constituency of nonvoters) whose unhappiness erupts in periodic aneurysms and whose message to the political process is the passive aggressive...
...THINK MANY AMERICANS ARE fooled by the Republicans' phony populism [COVER, Feb. 26]. The newly discovered proworker, anticorporate stance of Pat Buchanan and Bob Dole, as well as also-ran Lamar Alexander, is antithetical to the policies each has supported for decades. Americans want to merge the mottoes "Republicans want what works" and "Democrats want what is fair." F.D.R. gave America the New Deal; Truman followed with the Fair Deal; Reagan and Bush gave us special deals for the wealthy and secret deals with arms-for-hostages. The American people are tired of deals. Americans want a guiding principle that...
...TOAST TO PAT BUCHANAN--OUR VERY own Zhirinovsky! LEE R. LOMBARD Palm Springs, California...
GEORGE ORWELL WAS WRONG. THE year is not 1984, it's 1996, and Pat Buchanan is Big Brother. He spouts his popular economic-empowerment rhetoric, all the while eroding the very bases of freedom and multiculturalism that the country has prided itself on. EMILY STEPHENS Houston Via E-mail...
...DOLE SAYS THAT IF PAT BUCHANAN IS elected President, it will set this country back at least 30 years. Well, let's see. Thirty years ago, the average dad could support his family with just one job, Mom could raise the kids if she chose to, a young person could jump right out of high school or college into a job, the person best qualified got the job, there was less crime, our morals had not yet decayed, and there was less sex and violence on TV or in the movies. So, what's happened? Too many people coming into...