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1.xepherys: a state of emergency---martial law---is now much easier than it once was--one mechanism was written into the federal emergency management act under reagan--the other is the highest level of "terror alert".
2.cosmo: i really dont see how the democratic party can possibly be understood as extremist, unless you look at it from the left and see its race toward the center as a variant of the term. we live in a single party state with two right wings.
i can see why the right media would have an interest in trying to frame the democrats as left, though--it works as a neutralizing term that functions to conceal the degree to which the right has shifted onto the grounds of the evangelicals, onto a view of international institutions that used to be that of the john birch society, onto a view of guns that used to be that of elements in the militia movement...on and on....
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
-kamau brathwaite
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