Atari Democrat
Atari Democrat (German: Atari-Demokratie ) is a compound from the brand names Atari and Democrat as a designation for members of the Democratic Party in the USA . The term was used by the US media in the 1980s and referred to individual democratic politicians who wanted to maintain American technological leadership with high-tech solutions and create corresponding jobs in the USA.
In doing so, they set themselves apart from the classic Big Labor wing and the left-wing trade union and socio-political party currents. Critics saw the political current as a "softened version" of Reaganomics and neoliberalism in the left and referred to possible economic conflicts of interest. Well-known representatives included Paul Tsongas , Gary Hart and Al Gore .
The expression was coined by the Philadelphia Inquirer in 1984 . According to the Inquirer, the term had been appearing in New Yorker , BusinessWeek , Fortune , Time Magazine and the Wall Street Journal since 1982. "In 1989, the New York Times named investing in high technology as a contemporary equivalent using the term young moderate democrats the New Deal under consideration. in German the term is Atari Democrat seldom used. He found among others in 1984 in reports of the news magazines Spiegel and profile in the context of Gary Hart and in the press in a translation by Michael Boskin use.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Trudy Tynan, DICTIONARIES 'EDITORS MINE A MOTHER LODE-POLITICS, August 23, 1984 in the Philadelphia Inquirer , (Associated Press)
- ↑ EJ Dionne: Greening of Democrats: An 80's Mix of Idealism And Shrewd Politics . The New York Times . June 14, 1989. Retrieved November 11, 2010.
- ↑ I can rule this country , DER SPIEGEL 10/1984, online at Spiegel Online , accessed on February 29, 2012
- ↑ Retrieved from Google Books on February 29, 2012
- ↑ Michael Boskin : Troubling Resurrection of Industrial Policy, translated from English by Jan Doolan, Die Presse, November 29, 2009