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In generic terms this is manifested in the replacement of woods by bush, once the inadequacy of woods is recognized, and by the redefinition of words like forest and plain.
Though promoters of McCain-Feingold contend that this redefinition is consistent with Buckley , what they really mean is that they hope the Supreme Court will be prepared to rethink Buckley . Their theory is that the court will look at the mess of recent elections, and decide that the line it drew two decades ago in Buckley is unworkable.
But the larger intellectual revolution undergirding the Internet--the redefinition of the relationship between people and computers, which turned impersonal calculating machines into intimate tools for everyday thought--earns only a few mentions in passing.
Only in this case--unlike in Moynihan's--the redefinition has served to increase, rather than decrease, the required level of government intervention, shifting to the national treasury responsibility for hardships that individuals and localities once stoically assumed.
Answering these questions requires a constant redefinition of the difference between an argument and a threat.