Word: processing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Philadelphia, the campaign to amend the city charter to permit Mayor Frank Rizzo to seek a third term also rebounded against Flaherty. Democrat Rizzo, whose campaign had strong anti-black overtones, angered many Philadelphians. They voted 2-to-l against the mayor and in the process failed to give Flaherty the necessary margin to offset Thornburgh's advantage elsewhere. The Republican victory in the gubernatorial race is important, since it gives control of a populous Eastern state...
...Buncombe, to lay about him in good humor over the "rogues and vagabonds, frauds and scoundrels" who pump "stale bilge" around this "lugubrious ball." But even a man of such laser eye as Mencken confessed that after damning politicians uphill and downdale for years, a certain faith in the process kept re-emerging and he looked to politicians "to be able, diligent, candid, and even honest." That is a tall order, but one suspects that we will all be at it again in the next couple of months...
...decline of the parties is part of the atomizing process of American culture. "The individualistic instincts in this society," writes Washington Post Columnist David Broder, "have now become much more powerful in our politics than the majoritarian impulse. It is easier and more appealing for all of us leaders as well as followers-to separate ourselves from the mass than to seek out the alliances that can make us part of a majority." Voters seem to have lost the psychological need to feel themselves part of a large political cause; the Viet Nam War, Watergate and other scandals have left...
...proliferation of primaries, the funding of campaigns by political action groups instead of the old fat cats) have helped to destroy it. Says Joel Fleishman, director of Duke University's Institute for Policy Sciences: "With laudable motives, we've actually contributed to the degeneration of the political process...
...easier to exercise their integrity, although of course they may also owe fealty to some private lobby. In either case, they tend to lose the talent for compromise and concerted effort. Single-issue zealotry, which is rewarded in the new enlarged primary system, can contaminate the entire political process...