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These films have been derided as "teensploitation," but I don't think the description is fair.
Nancy Reagan's much derided "Just Say No" seems to have had an effect on the kids it targeted--drug use actually went down.
But isn't this ubiquitous propagandizing what we mocked and derided when the Soviets did it?
The NYT notes that the $500-a-child tax credit that President Clinton fought so hard to get into the deal was the "crown jewel of the Republicans' 1994 Contract With America," and that in boasting yesterday about the bill's college subsidies, Republicans were referring to the same feature they "had derided a few months ago as a device for little more than tuition inflation."
They've derided a government brief as proof that "poorly informed lawyers have no vocation for software design."