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It is just to say that there are a few elements worth keeping, albeit now ensconced in a horrendously bad business model and a sclerotic organization (at GM) that cannot seem to learn rapidly.— Latest Articles
'Metalman' is the old sclerotic, regulated past falling behind in the deregulated, faster, freer, richer, better world.— Reason Magazine - Hit & Run
Even if the character of the new government is not yet grasped in a politically conscious manner, there is an increasing sense that "Nothing has changed": the political system-sclerotic, corrupt, held in contempt-remains impervious to the interests and needs of the population.
"Resistance to expanded public service programs can be expected from the ideologically sclerotic, those who occupy the negative ground between government as the problem and government as our enemy."— Alex Jones' Prison Planet.com
This has created a surreal environment, in which the anger and discontent of the working class is suppressed by the old, politically sclerotic organizations.

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