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America's reality show: gloom and doom
Kathleen Parker Washington Post Writers Group
Posted: December 7, 2010 9:45 a.m.
Updated: December 8, 2010 5:00 a.m.
NEW YORK -- Pending catastrophe is not an easy notion to entertain, much less sustain. Americans moreover have a low tolerance for doom and gloom. We are the nation of optimism, after all. We elect leaders who promise hope and change. We are the shining city on a hill.

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