Liars! Cheaters! Evildoers!: Demonization and the End of Civil Debate in American PoliticsNYU Press, 2005 - Всего страниц: 228 The level of vitriol in American politics has been rising with no end in sight. Terms like “evildoer,” “war on terror,” and “axis of evil” have become commonplace in our discussion of international politics. What ever happened to civil debate? Where has all this moralizing come from? And what harm has this new level of attack caused to democracy in America? |
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... achieved in other ways. Perhaps the most recognizable example is the way in which “welfare” was increasingly used as a “racially coded” term going back over three decades, most notably through Ronald Reagan's fable about a “welfare ...
... achieved. Yet political discourse freer of demonization is a worthy and obtainable objective. Most of life must be lived in common. Living in a modern productive community, while fostering space for individual differences, requires a ...
... achieve reforms. Finally, in our conclusion, we develop a perspective and set of proposals to foster a more generous democratic polity—one thereby better positioned to mitigate tendencies toward demonization. We suggest a specific ...
... achieved by subjecting those practices to public scrutiny. As this example indicates, the legal principle of sanctity of a “man's castle,” which underlay the privacy protections outlined in Rex v. Wilkes (a 1763 decision that influenced ...
... achieving the good society now shifts to a proactive government. Morone points out that at the heart of Niebuhr's theology lay a “demanding existentialism reverberating with irony, paradox, and historical contingency.”11 Niebuhr would ...
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Americas Moral Paradox | 44 |
4 The Deep Divide and the Most Vulnerable | 64 |
Part II
Demonization and Wars Seeking the Enemy | 85 |
6 Terror Evil and the New Cold War | 102 |
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Terror Wars and Culture Wars | 129 |
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Preserve the Environment Become an Environmental Sport | 149 |
Conclusion | 164 |
Notes | 199 |
Index | 221 |
About the Authors | 228 |
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