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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... target is an easily identifiable “group” of people, whether a nation, race, ethnicity, political affinity, gender, or associational activity. In the second the target is an individual, although the real objective is often much broader ...
... targets. Debates over political agendas themselves have often included conflicts in which each side has accused the other of being of bad character. Prohibition is a good example, McCarthyism is another. Even issues of distribution or ...
... target of class resentments. In each case the cultural precept, deep in the Protestant ethic, that moral and spiritual salvation come through repressing desire and finding life's meaning through hard and disciplined work creates a code ...
... target of scrutiny so as to determine the direction our polity should take, the temptation to place political actors and their programs in bins of good and evil will proliferate. The more evil (or deviance) we find, the more fearful we ...
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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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