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But that's no argument in favor of maintaining a vastly flawed and unfair status quo.
John E. McCormac, the state treasurer, said the business groups' plan would "maintain the unacceptable and unfair status quo".
I would argue that it is more often made in craven, self-pitying defensiveness, in protection of an unfair status quo in our country that people like those chanting in support of Donald Trump's campaign for president hope to maintain.
All of this leaves right-of-center policy wonks in a morally complicated spot, perpetually aware (or hopefully perpetually aware) that their ideas are potentially just a fig leaf for a party that doesn't really want to support them, and an excuse for perpetuating an unfair status quo.
The second response about unfair status is the inappropriate role reversal.
As well as some air and hotel industry titans, the Freedom Foundation, backed by the Koch Brothers, are campaigning to keep the unfair status quo and persuade voters that better wages are somehow not in their best interest.
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However ugly, wasteful, cruel, damaging or unfair the status quo may be, there always seems to be somebody who can raise an impressive petition wishing to maintain it.
Some initially consider the challenge "unfair," given their status as undergraduates, but most have eventually been convinced by their own success in making novel contributions.
Pearlstine's criticisms of Cooper for being too cavalier about granting Rove confidential status are unfair.
Rodgers answered a variation of the same question: was it unfair to link elite status to the number of championships a quarterback wins?
Lerner developed from his work as a community organiser in working-class Oakland, California, a compelling theory – the "surplus powerlessness" of the title – to explain why the people he worked with tended not to challenge unfair working practices, low status and inadequate pay, whether unofficially or as members of a union.
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