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roachboy · 06-01-2005, 06:01 AM

once you see conservatives throwing hillary clinton about as a marker of left politics you know that they have been backed into seeing politics from a position that would square with that of any number of militia groups---the function of the empty signifer "the left" in conservativeland is to obscure just how far to the right the apparatus has moved---hillary clinton's actual political position are both wholly mysterious and totally irrelevant for the right--what matters is the 8 years of sustained bile directed at her from the planet limbaugh and other parallel outlets for audio autolobotomy. the reponses above to/about clinton are little more than nostalgic residuum of those years of sustained group hate orchestrated by the right--the pleasures of group hate, the sense of direction it gives, etc.

on the other hand, given that the politics of george w. bush roughly square with those of jean-marie le pen, it makes some sense that, for them, obvious centrists like clinton appear to be left ideologues of some mysterious type. but like many of the rhetorical moves you see recurring from the loyal footsoldiers of the neo-mcarthyite set do not refer to anything in the world other people know about, but instead refer to the right itself, to the authorized perception of the political landscape of conservative corporation. so it makes some sense to find a movement that is in fact located around the space of militia groups and snake-handling churches pretending that it represents the "mainstream" and that any and all opposition is a type of fifth column.

but again, this is not about the world. it is about conservatives themselves---nothing and no-one else.

as for the question of jeb bush running for president: i think you'll find that it never happens. even the right knows that, as of now, bush is among the least popular presidents ever, that his policies are not widely supported by the public, and can derive the obvious consequence--that another bush would be understood as more of the same. jeb would be among the finer gifts the right will give the rest of us. and i doubt very much that even the right's arrogance goes so far as to authorize a second bushrun for president any time soon.

06-01-2005, 06:01 AM	#37 (permalink)
roachboy Super Moderator Location: essex ma	once you see conservatives throwing hillary clinton about as a marker of left politics you know that they have been backed into seeing politics from a position that would square with that of any number of militia groups---the function of the empty signifer "the left" in conservativeland is to obscure just how far to the right the apparatus has moved---hillary clinton's actual political position are both wholly mysterious and totally irrelevant for the right--what matters is the 8 years of sustained bile directed at her from the planet limbaugh and other parallel outlets for audio autolobotomy. the reponses above to/about clinton are little more than nostalgic residuum of those years of sustained group hate orchestrated by the right--the pleasures of group hate, the sense of direction it gives, etc. on the other hand, given that the politics of george w. bush roughly square with those of jean-marie le pen, it makes some sense that, for them, obvious centrists like clinton appear to be left ideologues of some mysterious type. but like many of the rhetorical moves you see recurring from the loyal footsoldiers of the neo-mcarthyite set do not refer to anything in the world other people know about, but instead refer to the right itself, to the authorized perception of the political landscape of conservative corporation. so it makes some sense to find a movement that is in fact located around the space of militia groups and snake-handling churches pretending that it represents the "mainstream" and that any and all opposition is a type of fifth column. but again, this is not about the world. it is about conservatives themselves---nothing and no-one else. as for the question of jeb bush running for president: i think you'll find that it never happens. even the right knows that, as of now, bush is among the least popular presidents ever, that his policies are not widely supported by the public, and can derive the obvious consequence--that another bush would be understood as more of the same. jeb would be among the finer gifts the right will give the rest of us. and i doubt very much that even the right's arrogance goes so far as to authorize a second bushrun for president any time soon. __________________ a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear it make you sick. -kamau brathwaite