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Critics of the Democrats have maintained that the oldtime liberalism is dead. This is nonsense. The advancement toward social justice and decency has been led by Democrats. The methods for reaching this end may have shifted, but the principle of Government as protector of the disadvantaged must never change...
...creating demand for goods and services. It took World War II to really spur production and cure the Depression, but by then F.D.R. had won a victory of the spirit. His programs attacked not only poverty but helplessness. The poor and dispossessed began to feel that Government was their protector...
...songwriter. Some years later, a circus geek called Oofty Goofty became a sidewalk S-M entrepreneur: he let passers-by cane him for a quarter or hit him with a baseball bat for four bits. When another local loon, the self-appointed Norton I, Emperor of North America and Protector of Mexico, died in 1880, 30,000 people (out of a population of 234,000) went to the funeral. A century later, a punk rocker named Jello Biafra ran for mayor and finished fourth among ten candidates. Rudyard Kipling wrote that San Francisco was "a mad city-inhabited...
...wouldn't have become associated with it." As it happens, there are plenty of similarities in plot and tone between E.T. and Gremlins: a sweet, lonely boy in a matriarchal family in a near idyllic small town meets a gentle, otherworldly creature who becomes his charge and his protector. But these comparisons are mainly for exegetes and archaeologists, for by mid-film Author Chris Columbus and Director Joe Dante have spun Gremlins off its smooth E. T. rails and launched it into the fetid backwaters of fantasyland...
...civil rights activist also pointed out that the Justice Department had adhered to its responsibility to protect civil rights until the current administration took office. Since then, he added, the department has become "the biggest offender of civil rights, not the protector...