By John White
John White's attention-grabbing new booklet explores the more and more dominant function values play in modern-day private and non-private existence, concluding severe rift in political and cultural values in the US produced the stunning tie among George W. Bush and Al Gore within the 2000 presidential election. White argues that whereas politically vital, the current "values divide" is going a lot deeper than cultural conflicts among Republicans and Democrats. this day, voters are reexamining their very own intimate values--including how they paintings, dwell, and have interaction with every one other--while the nation's inhabitants is swiftly altering. jointly the solutions to those worth questions, White contends, have remade either American politics and the preferred tradition. good points * Current--takes inventory of the nationwide temper within the aftermath of September eleventh. * Thorough--compiles large present public opinion polling information from the Roper middle on the collage of Connecticut at key moments in contemporary American heritage together with in the course of the Columbine tragedy, the Clinton-Lewinsky scandal, Clinton's impeachment, and the Election of 2000 to give a photo of yank values on the outset of the twenty first century. * Insightful--provides a compelling reason for the end result of Election 2000 and the clients for the Republican and Democratic political agendas over the long run.
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We deplore the performance of our public schools, but somehow we can’t find the time to join parents’ associations, attend school board meetings, or even help our children with their homework. We complain about the influence of popular culture on our young people, but as parents we do not try very hard to monitor the programs our children watch and the music they hear. We desert neighborhood associations, and then lament the fraying of community. We elect, and then reelect, leaders for whom we profess mistrust.
Al was astonished and angry—he had gone through such a struggle trying to do the right thing. He was one of only a dozen students in his Harvard class of more than one thousand who would go to Vietnam. : Our Forty-Third President (unpublished manuscript presented to Aladdin Paperbacks, 2000), 15, 32, 52, 53, 58, 60. Children’s books often provide illuminating insights into our values thinking. In 2000, Beatrice Gormley prepared two biographies of presidential contenders George W. Bush and Al Gore, only one of which was to be published once a winner was determined.
29 In 2001, the Gallup Organization found a growing public acceptance of homosexuality in all aspects of social and cultural life: • • • • • Agreement that homosexuality is an acceptable alternative lifestyle rose from 38 percent in 1992 to 52 percent. Those believing “homosexual relations between consenting adults should be legal” increased from 43 percent in 1977 to 54 percent. Equal numbers say homosexuality is genetically caused as opposed to being environmentally caused—the first such tie in twenty-four years.
