Word: establishmentism
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"I think we should all be kicking ass fairly regularly," she wrote of her activism in her autobiography. "I don't think we should continue to permit the Establishment to feed us only what they think we should have."
Waiting for change? Don't hold your breath For all the grousing about the current situation, and the tumult it so memorably precipitated over the weeks following the election, most constitutional scholars agree that sweeping changes are unlikely. We're a nation fond of tradition - particularly our own - and while...
There is no truth or courage in a stacked democratic election, and there is no devotion to duty in a spoils system. Even so, both have become part of the establishment of our undergraduate organizations--sacrificing our principles and deserving leaders in one fell swoop.
"But there's another reason: Putin is trying to build a new foreign policy. Once the Soviet Union collapsed, Boris Yeltsin's Russia tried to give up the old Soviet foreign policy and adopt positions more accommodating to the West, and more in line with the thinking of democratic countries...
This every-which-way process has been at work ever since the first prehistoric flint pebble was knapped into a butchering tool. Until about 500 years ago, however, innovation in a world moving at the speed of agriculture came infrequently, giving time for accommodation and a complacent sense of establishment...