Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Finally, let us examine Buchanan as hick, a fruit-loop, a crazy, lunatic cave-dweller. Unfortunately, this sort of ridicule does not work as a social value defense strategy. It does not persuade people of the benefits of open markets, international engagement, immigration, racial and religious tolerance. Satiric witticisms amuse us at Harvard (or those of us in Sydney) but simply serve to reinforce the suspicion of many Americans that the intellectual and political elite are laughing at them. Pat Buchanan is not a joke. He is a social specter hidden behind a political shroud...
...hype, the business of America is still business. If you listened to all the political hoopla, you would think that legislators are doing their utmost to improve the general quality of life in our fair nation. Every Presidential hopeful has their own plan on how to reform health care, social security and/or public education. Political parties are falling over themselves to provide tax cuts. Politicians everywhere raise outcries over the massacre in Littleton and propose gun-control, tougher crime laws and/or censorship of the overly-violent media as solutions...
Sadly, all this talk is just that--talk. It is hype created by politicians for the benefit of next year's presidential election. While they may talk about increasing the funding for public education or devoting all of the budget surplus to social security, their actions, like the recent decision to revoke the Glass-Steagall Act, demonstrate that their biggest interest is increasing our country's wealth, or more specifically, the wealth of the nation's top 10 percent...
...rough. Ask him what's wrong with the campaign-money game or Clinton's foreign policy, and McCain can be dazzling--puzzled and outraged but full of strong, simple ideas for cleaning up the mess. Ask him, however, about the concerns that actually drive elections--health care, education, Social Security, what he listlessly calls our "various domestic challenges"--and he can seem as lost and bored as a Sherpa in Kansas. He'll say, "We have to do a lot more" about this or "We've got to pay attention" to that, then lapse into an autopilot recitation of catchphrases...
...what is it that polyamorists want? Until the Divilbiss case, they had few political goals, and even now their mission is mostly social. Basically, they want to convince us that the politics of the heart doesn't have to be governed by a one-party system. "If you are married, but you meet someone in the office you fall in love with, what do you do?" asks Hill. Most of us have to give up someone. "But that's so painful. People destroy themselves, destroy their families over that. All I'm saying is, we have choices...