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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Welcome to my blog
Words and phrases shown on this blog are taken from actual speeches and written text in the public arena during the current week
I hope that GRE General Test Takers and others who aim to build their word power will find this blog useful
"Language is the medium of all understanding and all tradition
And language is not to be understood as an instrument or tool that we use, rather it is the medium in which we live" (Gadamer)
This is a work in progress.
- Your comments and suggestions are welcome
- Hope you will visit often, and share this blog with your friends
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