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English citations of Americrat and AMERICRAT

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  • 2007 June 11, Sun Advocate, “The Wasatch Behind: Spud debates himself”, in ETV News‎, archived from the original on April 15, 2025:
    “I had to change political parties,” he admitted. “I was running as a Plutocrat, the party of rich people, but when I went to the convention, I didn’t wear the right shoes and I accidentally dropped my false teeth in the caviar dish. I also got my tuxedo tails stuck in the elevator door and it wasn’t pretty. After that, the Plutocrats decided to stick with John Edwards. So I had to start my own political party. I’m an Americrat now.” “I’ve never heard of the Americrat Party,” I said. “I’m the only member, so far,” he admitted, “but we Americrats stand for what’s best for this country.”
  • 2008 October 1, Ian Gurvitz, “The Americrat”, in HuffPost‎, archived from the original on April 14, 2025:
    The Americrat
  • 2014 July 9, Keith T Jenkins, “Part Four – Opening Politics”, in Misfit Toymakers: Misfits Made‎, AuthorHouse, →ISBN, page 182:
    "Mr. Moore's lead contender is Harold Wallace of the Americrat party," the talking head would say, "the great-grand-son of one time Governor of Alabama and US presidential candidate, George Wallace, and the great-great-grand-son of Coretta Scott and Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • 1995, The New York Times Book Review‎, volume 100, numbers 36-44, New York Times Company:
    Mr. Pinkerton takes us through the software variations, BUREAUCRAT 1.0, 2.0 and so forth, and through our home-grown versions, AMERICRAT 1.0 and sucessors, up to today's AMERICRAT 5.0. He takes us through the aging of the system and its upgrading, including phenomena he describes as Spending, Layering, Bottomlining and Hawthorne Effect-ing – ways the system adapts to stress, shooting adrenaline into itself through strategies like defecit spending, creating new agencies or just shuffling the structures to provide a temporary boost. He outlines the bugs in the system, from bureaucratic bloat through information overload.
  • 1995, Commonsense‎, numbers 8-10, National Policy Forum, page 29:
    Privatization has its ideological, anti-bureaucracy side — but to most people its appeal is practical. Only the most diehard AMERICRAT loyalist still claims that the Old Paradigm operates efficiently; anyone who has
  • 1995 October 12, James P. Pinkerton, What Comes Next: The End of Big Government - and the New Paradigm Ahead‎, Hyperion, →ISBN, page 122:
    The difficulty we face tday is how to help people regain the Operating System that would help them move ahead. The decadence of AMERICRAT has crippled millions; so now what do we do? Precisely because the Reichian rights revolution was waged in the courts, not at the ballot box, AMERICRAT 4.0 is resistant to political therapy.
  • 1995 October 15, Norman Ornstein, “Big Idea Man”, in The New York Times‎, archived from the original on April 23, 2024, section 7, page 28:
    Mr. Pinkerton takes us through the software variations, BUREAUCRAT 1.0, 2.0 and so forth, and through our home-grown versions, AMERICRAT 1.0 and successors, up to today's AMERICRAT 5.0. He takes us through the aging of the system and its upgrading, including phenomena he describes as Spending, Layering, Bottomlining and Hawthorne Effect-ing – ways the system adapts to stress, shooting adrenaline into itself through strategies like deficit spending, creating new agencies or just shuffling the structures to provide a temporary boost. He outlines the bugs in the system, from bureaucratic bloat through information overload.
  • 1995 November, Steven Hayward, “Cyberspace Cadet”, in Reason Magazine‎, archived from the original on February 4, 2025:
    Pinkerton uses cyberthink to construct his second main point, which is to explain the failure of the "old paradigm" of big government with the metaphor of a computer operating system. In this case, big government has operated on BOS—Bureaucratic Operating System—for several generations, including several upgrades. The Great Society of the 1960s represented the last major system upgrade (Pinkerton calls it AMERICRAT 5.0), but even by then the old BOS was becoming obsolete.
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