Word: self
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...credits Reagan with restoring the country's economy and its self-respect. Reagan "gave this country a new confidence....He believed in American and in our future and he conveyed that to the American people...
Tolstoy tried to resolve the first through a homegrown faith that amounted to a churchless Christianity. He shunned organized religion and city life for rustic self-sufficiency among the muzhiks (peasants) at his estate, Yasnaya Polyana (Bright Glade). He preached against the evils of meat, alcohol, tobacco and fornication. He believed a Christian should make his own shoes and empty his own chamber...
There are three welfare "conundrums" which Ellwood discerns in the current system. First, there is what he dubs the security-work conundrum, in which the demands of providing security for those whose earnings place them below the poverty line conflict with the desire to make those people self-sufficient workers. Then, there is the targeting-isolation conundrum, which contrasts the need to identify and aid specific groups of the poor with the problem of isolating and stigmatizing those same people...
...these six presidential candidates and of Reagan are the result of a single event or individual that had a profound impact on the candidate's development. The devastating injuries which Bob Dole received during his service in World War II have produced his "dark side," his insistence on self-reliance, and his often bitter sense of humor. Jesse Jackson's character and drive were nourished in the subculture of the segregated black South, and his insatiable quest for legitimacy and respect are the product of having been born out of wedlock and constantly being reminded of that fact...
UNFORTUNATELY, it's none of these. For what's most troubling about Character is Sheehy's cynical mindset, namely the assumption that today's candidates are inherently lying, pandering and manipulative bastards, trying to con the living daylights out of those malleable voters. Therefore, this self-serving mindset continues, voters should wise up, ignore what the candidates are saying, and treat what an "enlightened" few in the press say about them as gospel...