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Pollitt, Katha | March 7, 1994 issue

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Out there in the real world, though, the official American ideology of self-reliance and happy families is wearing thin, as more and more people come to believe it does not reflect their own experience. It's all very well to say that two wrongs don't make a right--a proverb much cited with respect to all these cases. Faced with this erosion of the American belief system, the mainstream media can't think of anything to do except keep reasserting that everyone really is the master of his fate, even as the evidence mounts that millions of Americans really are victims, and that this sometimes drives them over the edge.

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SELF-confidence; IDEOLOGY; PHILOSOPHY; VICTIMS; RELIABILITY; UNITED States
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