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Saturday, November 17, 2012

271. Dystopia

Extract from, "The Final Insult: Mitt Romney’s Clueless Gift Gaffe" by John Avlon, The Daily Beast, 11/14/12:
 Romney’s comments about his opponent’s “old playbook,” as he called it, again revived a dystopian scenario conservatives have been warning about since the New Deal, where Democrats “buy” a permanent majority and undermine democracy at the cost of the productive class.

Dystopia:  an imagined place or state in which everything is unpleasant or bad, typically a totalitarian or environmentally degraded one

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