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Old 11-05-2004, 07:56 AM   #24 (permalink)
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the bushspeech of yesterday gives you a fair index of how the notion of unity can be used in an attempt to shut down spaces of legitimate political opposition.

i do not really care if america is divided or not in principle because i do not care about the notion of nation--i see it as a delusion, a form of collective mental disorder.

i do care about the right to dissent.

the way i see it, the whole handwringing about unity is a way of trying to frame as somehow natural divisions that are strictly political.

in this war of position, the right has a tactical advantage.
it will not last.
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