The war, popular initially with the American people, dragged on for two years, generating intense civic discontent and sapping the president's political standing.
For centuries, on the right and the left alike, it has been an article of faith that, in moments of sharp civic discontent, you and I and everyone we know can take to the streets, demanding change.
But even as one of the largest energy booms in history has erupted along a great arc of the continent, the consequences are prompting civic discontent, lawsuits, and political battles in state capitals.
No one was safe from their disgruntled wrath, not even the art world which is ironic considering art typically serves as the arbiter of cultural criticism and social commentary on matters of civic discontent.
On civic virtues and his discontents: I think Americans are the only people in the world today, I really do, who really, literally, spend most of their time -- whether it's in politics, whether it's in satire, art, fiction, you name it -- breast beating, baring its soul and proclaiming to the heavens how rotten it is.
But Mr. Bloomberg was among the first people to criticize the original six plans publicly, which galvanized the growing discontent among many civic groups; the subsequent public opposition to the initial plans has enhanced the mayor's stature.
Unable to understand the roots of the discontent, Gates was utterly incapable of stemming the civic unrest and alienation that followed.
One protester, a teacher, complained that the mayor was providing a poor civics lesson, and a state senator, Eric Adams, summed up the growing discontent — and drew the loudest cheers — by comparing Mr. Bloomberg to an athlete who was running out of time.
This is a much-needed development in American culture, but its discontents are numerous: A lack of attention paid to the civic, social, and artistic benefits of schooling, and the ways in which children are (ideally) shaped as moral, cultured, socially-responsible people by their teachers and school communities".
But Manfredo Marroquin of Civic Action, one such group, thinks that the main reason so many bothered to vote was discontent with the PAN over an ailing economy.
"There's general discontent and boredom among young people with the two established parties," said Krzysztof Bobiński, a political commentator close to Civic Platform.
