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The whole notion of democracy has been eroded and discredited, with the radicalization that engulfs many Muslim societies now spilling over into their emigrant communities in the West.
After beggaring their adherents, these policies are now utterly
discredited.
It also means launching a concerted information campaign to discredit that ideology, much like the West
discredited
communism during the Cold War – a critical component of its eventual triumph.
Then crisis struck, and the hubris of that era was quickly
discredited.
President Charles Taylor's resignation from Liberia's presidency and his exile in Nigeria is not only a welcome relief for the war-torn land he so misruled, but also perhaps a bellwether for other
discredited
dictators.
The collapse
discredited
the more extreme version of the optimally self-adjusting economy; but it did not restore the prestige of the Keynesian approach.
Since it is an economic crisis, most people seeking its intellectual roots are tempted to begin with economists, who, with a few exceptions, look particularly
discredited.
The global financial meltdown in 2008 and its economic aftershocks had
discredited
Western-led multilateral lenders and the free-market “Washington Consensus.”
Third, in Britain at least, the entire political class has been
discredited
by a sleazy scandal about the expenses that many parliamentarians have paid themselves.
Unless we do that better, fewer people will vote for MEPs, more of them will be elected simply on a protest vote and represent Europe’s murky extremes, and the whole practice and principle of European democracy will be
discredited.
Yet, in 2014, Lomborg commissioned a study by an economist that, with another narrow CBA, came to the same – if not discredited, at least debated – conclusion favoring investment in primary education over higher education.
The US will be crippled by its high debt, under-performing economy, and
discredited
economic model.
This is just a little of what 2010 perhaps has in store – and no mention yet of Israeli settlement building on the West Bank, Pakistan’s struggle against murderous extremists, and NATO’s bloody difficulties in propping up a
discredited
and corrupt Afghan regime in order to prevent the country from falling back into the hands of the Taliban and Al-Qaeda.
The
discredited
election results suggested that the country is geographically and ethnically divided, with the democratic opposition candidate Yushchenko winning overwhelmingly in seventeen western and central regions, while Yanukovych dominated in ten eastern and southern regions.
Understandably, the exposure of the IPL as a morass of deceit,
discredited
by “spot-fixing” episodes engineered by unscrupulous bookies and venal players, has deflated such heady notions.
Meanwhile, the established families – social democrats, liberals, and the European People’s Party (EPP) bloc – have been
discredited
in many Europeans’ eyes.
Protests faded, as their leaders were smeared, discredited, and silenced.
But while Trump ran as a populist, he has governed as a plutocrat, most recently by endorsing the
discredited
supply-side theory of taxation that most Republicans still cling to.
Arrayed against them are the
discredited
politics of the old regimes and well-meaning, often numerous, but highly disorganized liberal-minded groups.
Photographs, videos, and audio recordings of politicians and paramilitary thugs (including one who boasts of having personally killed more than 300 of his enemies) have
discredited
a political elite that, while never very popular, has now had some of the worst suspicions that many held about it graphically confirmed.
He would like to restore some aspects of an older Japan,
discredited
by Japanese military behavior, such as patriotic pride, a more central role for the imperial institution, and even a reappraisal of Japan’s wartime record itself.
Claims of this type have a long,
discredited
history, stretching back through the eugenics movement of the early 20th century to its acknowledged ‘father,’ Francis Galton, in Victorian England.
Eurozone leaders’ temptation to revert to earlier,
discredited
models of European relationships was bearable for a time, but it has now reached the limit of its tolerability.
In fact, Olmert’s weak and
discredited
government may yet survive.
The euro, finally and fully discredited, would then meet a very messy end.
If politicians cannot repeal corporatism, it will bury itself in debt and default, and a capitalist system could re-emerge from the
discredited
corporatist rubble.
It benefits further from the fact that Almagro, who has played a notable role in promoting the defense of democracy and human rights in Venezuela, has now been discredited, undermining the entire OAS election monitoring process.
With the traditional institutions of rule thoroughly
discredited
by the war, the vacuum of legitimacy would be filled by powerful demagogues and populist dictatorships: “The best lack all conviction, while the worst/are full of passionate intensity.”
The organizing principle seems to be to discard pragmatism entirely and advance an extreme and
discredited
ideology.
When change came, instead of following a slow democratic process, Russia replaced its
discredited
communist model overnight with a Harvard-designed blueprint that was also unfit for the country.
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