Word: vision
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Ironically, Reagan's particular vision is a startlingly radical one for such a successful politician. Not surprisingly, though, Americans haven't bought it. Polls show time and time again that there are few issues of which it can be said mainstream Americans have moved measurably to the right. What Americans appreciate is leadership, and in a party or a President that means standing for something...
Once again the Democrats have missed the boat. There's nothing new or exciting about the vast, mushy center where all political fence-sitters feel most at home. Americans have not embraced President Reagan because they support every element of his right-wing vision; rather, they've given him their votes simply because he has a vision. Any vision...
...Democrats need to take a stand. But only if they incorporate issues such as the environment, tax reform, economic security, and gun control into a coherent vision can they hope to recapture the affections of the voters. Trying to form a coalition of special-interest groups can no longer do the trick. Several local and state Democratic candidates have run recently with great success emphasizing workfare programs and the clean-up of hazardous-wastes. The victories of Mark Green and Bella Abzug in New York, John Lewis in Georgia, and Harriet Woods in Missouri proves that there is still...
...often those who have ideas that will aid "the people" forget to appeal to the basic values that make the people "the people." Ronald Reagan, on the other hand, managed to speak to Americans, offer a very radical vision and get much of it into law. How can a liberal, who oftentimes offers a vision of boring bureaucrats and disparate special interest groups, do the same...
Syria has little sympathy for either half of the peace envisioned in the West. Syria not only rejects the existence of an Israeli state, it has little use for a Palestinian state. Syria and its favorite Lebanese terror group, the Syrian Socialist Nationalist Party, have a different vision. An Associated Press dispatch summarizes it nicely: "The secular SSNP seeks the merger of Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, pre-Israel Palestine, Iraq, Kuwait and Cyprus" -- Cyprus! -- "into a Greater Syria...