AT: Listening to the rhetoric in the present political cycle, there seems to be a missing word.
It is not “angst” or “frustration,” neither “equality” nor “jobs” or even the latest buzzword, “establishment.”
All these words are thrown around in the present debate.
Being true politicians, candidates pepper their speeches with them, while promising everything to maximize voter benefits and placate their concerns. The word “anti-establishment” is now all the rage, even among those who actually benefited from being part of it.
The race is like an electoral supermarket, where voters can find all these words and promises, but it seems to do little to satisfy their agitated mood.
One aisle offers lower taxes (for most) or higher taxes (on others), free healthcare, free college, and jobs of every size and shape. Down another aisle, one can find less bureaucracy, fewer government programs, or increased military spending. There are special displays for classic socialism or socialism lite. Everything can be found save the missing word, so necessary to fix our nation’s problems at its very core.
Two factors help explain voter discontent and the need for this missing word in the present debates. more
Does the first right answer commentator win a whistle?
Good article.
“Whenever the call to sacrifice sounds, Americans rise to the occasion with great valor”
Let’s hope the differences in opinions about the pros and cons of the various candidates for Republican nominee can be set aside those differences, and step and vote for whomever the nominee is. For the greater good. Sacrifice.
The word is I – it has been worn out by Obama
I am not convinced you can get Americans in general to sacrifice these days. No way. The operative words nowadays are: Me. Me. Me.
Is the word “confussed” or “idiot,” because I’m one of those after reading this.
The word is “liberty”.
I was thinking “liberty” all along, but “sacrifice” is pretty good, too.
Don’t think I’ve heard ‘underwear’ yet.