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From Vic Toews 'proposal to jail ten-year-olds, to former Ontario Premier Mike Harris' slashing of welfare benefits and setting up snitch lines to harass the poor, to the eliminationist rhetoric with which we are all by now drearily familiar, "sado-politics" has become the hallmark of a certain type of conservative.
Archive 2009-05-01 2009
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My word, in which I take a certain pride, is "sado-politics," used to describe the right-wing political penchant for inflicting pain and generating vicarious enjoyment of that pain as a political ploy.
Archive 2009-05-01 2009
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Or is this just more of those sado-politics Dawg was talking about?
Heroin Is Illegal, Except When The Government Buys It For You « Unambiguously Ambidextrous 2009
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My word, in which I take a certain pride, is "sado-politics," used to describe the right-wing political penchant for inflicting pain and generating vicarious enjoyment of that pain as a political ploy.
Spread the word! 2009
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From Vic Toews' proposal to jail ten-year-olds, to former Ontario Premier Mike Harris' slashing of welfare benefits and setting up snitch lines to harass the poor, to the eliminationist rhetoric with which we are all by now drearily familiar, "sado-politics" has become the hallmark of a certain type of conservative.
Spread the word! 2009
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He was, in other words, a rising young star of conservative sado-politics.
Archive 2008-02-01 2008
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Right politics is sado-politics, in the main, and this is an example that I intend to use in the future.
It's funny until a wheelchair-bound paraplegic gets his neck broken ... CC 2008
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Welcome to the wonderful world of municipal sado-politics.
Archive 2007-07-01 2007
Dr.Dawg commented on the word sado-politics
Sado-politics: appeal to the sadistic instincts of the electorate, e.g., by calling for capital punishment or excusing torture or cutting welfare payments.
June 13, 2009