Sentences with phrase «dysfunctional political»

CWM are blocking the entire, diverse climate coalition from taking action by virtue of intensity (not to mention a broken, dysfunctional political system).

So we distract ourselves in television, get lost in social media, focus on America's dysfunctional political drama.

While Ruth skewered the abortion wars, Election was an allegory for our dysfunctional political system set in an Omaha high school.

It said it had found a dysfunctional political and electoral system in New York, and that the best way to change that would be to enact public campaign financing without delay.

The reality is that Andrew Cuomo is a true master of Albany's dysfunctional political culture in which public transparency and participation are viewed as nuisances, and obstacles to actually getting things done.

Going forward, the timeframe for collapse of dysfunctional political systems that do not uphold dignity needs will be reduced to just years as instant connectivity will enhance the speed of transformation.

Herb, I did not mean to imply that all political power is equal or that political activism was ineffective; but it needs to be FOR something and not simply AGAINST something as it has become in our DYSFUNCTIONAL political process.

Bishop, thinking that fixing our dysfunctional political system rather than trusting God's Grace to heal humanity's social ills is not only heretical, it is also apostate, IMO.

«Our vulnerability to Russia or any other foreign power is directly related to how divided, partisan, dysfunctional our political process is,» he said.

Not exact matches

In addition to that, the euro area has (a) worsening problems of political instability (Italy without government, unfolding corruption scandals in recession - hit Spain and France), (b) dysfunctional banking systems (weak banks and their impaired lending activities despite ample liquidity supplied by the ECB) and (c) lingering uncertainties about the financial system's credibility (problems with depositor and investor protection).

Because of the increase in mental illness associated with political and economic inequalities resulting in stressful living conditions, several types of dysfunctional parenting have also been identified.

Now that would take care of much that is dysfunctional in our political system.

«The rules are dysfunctional,» says political consultant Paul Wheeler.

The demonstrations they engage in have different root causes, but they all call for a new form of politics beyond neoliberal restructuring, destructive environmental policies, self - interested political elites and dysfunctional democracies.

Espada has repeatedly accused Cuomo of targeting him in a political «witch hunt» in order to boost his own credentials as a erformer — a reputation on which he rode to the governor's office in 2010 while pledging to clean up the infamously dysfunctional and corruption - ridden state Capitol.

State Chairman Frank MacKay made the following statement following the convention, «The members of the Independence Party represent a cross-section of political views, but we are firmly united in our beliefs that our growing dysfunctional governing bodies in NYS and Washington, DC are deeply in need of reform from the bottom up and the top down.

Yesterday, we wrote about Shafran's role in excuse - making for the corrupt and dysfunctional legislature up in Albany, but what wasn't discussed is that Shafran also worked as the goto political spinmaster for Senator Malcolm Smith — the same Senator that was arrested in a statewide FBI corruption probe that alleges he attempted to rig the Mayoral election through fraud and bribes early this morning.

[10] One needs only broach the subject of politics in a college dorm, in a taxi, or in an off - licence to discern the collective outrage that Cameroonians express towards a corrupt, dysfunctional and prejudicial political system.

I tend to agree with that (rare enough given most of your posts, lol), but it is all of a type with the dysfunctional nature of NuLabour, the lack of anyone other than political pygmies and deeply unpleasant illiberal control freaks to repalce him, and the flawed character of the man himself.

The language in the Moreland Commission's report on legislative corruption is scathing, and validates what crusading journalists, watchdog groups and prosecutors have been saying for years: Albany is a place where laws are bought, and nothing will change until the «dysfunctional electoral and political systems» are reformed.

Doug Muzzio, professor of political science at Baruch College, said he believes Cuomo is doing the best thing he can for himself by remaining mum on the scandals that have left Albany more dysfunctional than ever.

GR: You've often talked in the past, when you first ran, of New York having a dysfunctional state political system, a dysfunctional legislature.

He has been particularly critical of Singas, who he has accused of running a «dysfunctional» office that is too reactive and has failed to adequately address problems with gangs, heroin and political corruption.

The Dems attack CP's political correctness while ignoring the corrupt and dysfunctional state government; totally under their control for the past two years.

But for large, dysfunctional urban districts with political boards and dismal performance, especially those now actively losing enrollment and facing the downward spiral described above, there is rarely a viable path for improvement and competition with charters that does not involve a partial or complete restructuring of what really is a failed delivery model.

A veteran of the sharp - elbowed politics of New York's infamously dysfunctional state legislature (called the worst in the nation by the Brennan Center for Justice in 2004), Carroll assembled a team of equally determined and savvy colleagues, most of whom had honed their political skills in those same tough trenches.

Hard experiences of conflict, war and trauma have inevitable and negative impact on social, economic and political life of individuals and communities, with long term effects on their function and development, creating number of dysfunctional individuals and traumatized societies, and trauma transfer on generations.

«The dysfunctional American political system no longer justifies a Triple - A rating from anyone,» says @mikejcaseyhttp: / / on.mktw.net/1erN8Jf

Gallo's mercurial and deceptively slight art — which juxtaposes a melancholic world - view akin to that of Joy Division with the dysfunctional aesthetics reminiscent of, say, Forrest Bess or Ree Morton — is littered with literary, art - historical, political and musical references.

Zdoc simply thinks that if it's a good idea to put some space between science and politics, why on earth would you want to be dealing with the demonstrably most political and frequently dysfunctional organization on the globe?

The aspect of this that I think points to a dysfunctional scientific community is the obvious elements of political and personal choice involved in public policy.

The science - policy interface has become increasingly dysfunctional in recent decades, especially on topics where there is political disagreement.

No matter how righteous the effort, the chances of favorably impacting the dysfunctional behavior of the political elite and the ideologically motivated are slim and none.

Many in the parasitic & political classes and much of the LSM may still not have recognized it (and / or will continue to deliberately ignore the facts), but IMO we can now say that the tipping - point has been reached on the whole AGW scam: Enough MSM outlets (especially the Fleet Street mob over in the U.K.) have gotten their teeth into the dysfunctional Climate-Gate family that Reverend Gore and friends will never get the AGW - as - religion genie back in the bottle.

I think that it is deplorable that the political process, dysfunctional as it is, may undermine humanitarian contributions.

The most fundamental problem in Canada is the result of a political system so dysfunctional that it can not be called in any sense a democracy.

This of course relates to the theme of much I have written: the dangers created by the collision of science and markets with dysfunctional individuals and political institutions, and the way the political - media system actively suppresses thinking about, and focus on, what's important.

A more accurate model is: politics is a system that 1) selects against skills needed for rigorous thinking and for qualities such as groupthink and confirmation bias, 2) incentivises a badly selected set of people to consider their career not the public interest, 3) drops them into dysfunctional institutions with no relevant training and poor tools, 4) centralises vast amounts of power in the hands of these people and institutions in ways we know are bound to cause huge errors, and 5) provides very weak (and often damaging) feedback so facing reality is rare, learning is practically impossible, and system reform is seen as a hostile act by political parties and civil services worldwide.

The second book is a fascinating look on how dysfunctional the American political system really is, even in the toned - down language of the authors.

Parenting coordinators bring to their job their personal opinions and values and speculations founded on their unknown personal backgrounds, including some of the most dysfunctional (and undisclosed) personal familial histories, and implement their personal and political agendas.