Word: voter
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...Democracy," essayist John Simon writes, "encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully ignorant." Nowhere is that more true than in America. How many of that exalted species, the American voter, can coherently explain the difference between the federal deficit and the national debt? How many can formulate a cogent account of why living standards are stagnating...
...wonder, then, that politicians, stuck with an audience whose ignorance has left it insensible to reason, resorts to deceit. If all that the average voter retains from political discourse is a vague conception of the evils of "tax-and-spend Democrats" and "trickle-down economics" why would any politician offer anything more substative than cliches like these...
Karen Meredith, 38, a Perot voter, founded the American Association of Boomers three years ago to pursue her generation's interests. She says she is hearing from many of her 26,000 members that Clinton didn't cut nearly enough. "It won't reduce the deficit at all. We will have paid all those taxes for nothing. There are a lot of tough choices out there, and I don't know if Bill Clinton has the guts to be unpopular...
...would Clinton use such obfuscatory language? It allows him to say two things at once, to address two audiences and to tell them each a different story. To the average voter, it says that all of the difficult policy choices that complicate the political landscape are merely false oppositions...
With words fast losing their meaning, it will be difficult for the average voter to figure out a candidate's true plans. The electorate will suffer from a fundamental linguistic bifurcation...