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campaigning for their support and reproducing some of the most antidemocratic features of that particular way of thinking are not the same thing. bush could easily argue that he defends their interests, for example, without indulging in the same patterns to frame not just these positions, but the whole of his administration.
that god for example, so far as bush is concerned, thought that the war in iraq was justified played a role in the contempt the administration showed to international and national law in the run-up to and conduct of that war. because the pattern of thinking about politics leaked from the religious into the political domain. i do not know if this is true, but it makes enough sense intuitively that it make this administration pretty alarming.
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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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