Sentences with phrase «american liberal democracy»

And yet, American liberal democracy has nonetheless always made available the tools to nurture those essential moral foundations of freedom.

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Weigel writes: «Avoiding the really hard questions, O'Brien's Massey Lectures are replete with what cigar - makers call «filler»: ill - informed cracks about American presidential politics; typically dismissive liberal cliches about a somnambulant Ronald Reagan; a strange obsession with the Clinton Administration's «Operation Restore Democracy» in Haiti.

It is represented in our day by liberal arts colleges, the Masons, Rotary, life insurance, Religion in American Life, the Anti-Defamation League, the League of Women Voters, Reader's Digest, the Jaycees, the Pro-Choice Movement, Robert Schuller, the WCTU, Common Cause, savings banks, the Moral Majority, William Buckley, the Institute for Religion and Democracy - and many preachers of the mainline denominations.

Soviet spies were of the left generally, they supported liberal causes, they defended the Soviet Union in all circumstances, they were often secret members of the Communist Party, they were uniformly suspicious of American initiatives throughout the world, they could be contemptuous of American democracy, society, and culture, and, above all, their offenses were often minimized or explained away by apologists who felt that no man should be called traitor who did what he did for the cause of humanity.

Perhaps the most harmful transformation, though, has been the PCUSA's adoption of decision - making procedures that mimic American - style liberal democracy rather than expressing the character and quality of ecclesial community.

After the collapse of the Soviet Union, Americans thought the world stage had been cleared for our benevolent power to lift others to the broad, sunlit uplands of liberal democracy and free - market prosperity.

Others favour the model set out most credibly by American foreign policy expert John Hulsman, who advocates an ambitious global free trade area with a security element — effectively tying the world's liberal democracies together, with Britain playing a significant new role within this new structure.

The party shares in the mission of many of the worldwide Green Parties and generally supports a left - leaning, liberal platform on the American political spectrum with an emphasis on the core tenets of environmental protection, social justice, grassroots democracy, and pacifism.

If Vladimir Putin wants to destroy American democracy, Bannon wants to destroy American culture by recharging dreary narratives that dictate American bugaboos, like «liberal Hollywood» and the «Lamestream Media.»

Shanker thought of himself as a liberal, indeed a Socialist; but for many liberals he seemed a racist conservative, as he maintained his fierce anti-Communist stance, supported American military power in defense of democracy, and insisted on the primacy of the trade - union movement in making a better society.

And the pro-voucher group American Federation for Children, which she headed as chairwoman and is based in Washington D.C., has spent more than $ 5 million in Wisconsin in favor of Republican elected officials since 2010, when the GOP gained control of state government, according to data from the liberal - leaning Wisconsin Democracy Campaign, which tracks campaign spending.

In this regard, curiously, was a point made in an article titled «The Whitney Biennial for Angry Women,» which criticized the biennial for including Dawoud Bey's portrait of Barack Obama as a sign of a presumably despised «liberal democracy» and «open code for the newest American myth: the multicultural, progressive future.»

as a sign of a presumably despised «liberal democracy» and «open code for the newest American myth: the multicultural, progressive future.»

He wants to discredit American democracy and make us weaker in terms of leading the liberal democratic order.

Economic growth and stability is the key concern of Americans — and more generally liberal (in the international sense) democracies and aspirant peoples globally.