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from very early on in looking into conservativeland, i ran across an astute elist that was called red rock eater--i dont know if it is still around, nor do i remember the guy who put it together--but it was very good. one of the main features of the new conservativeland that he pointed out was the role of projection. if the right does something--like shift very far to the right---you will find that the discourse will project this shift onto its construction of its opposite. the right does the same thing on the question of voter fraud, on the relation between the democratic party and the constituency that will in this election vote for it---and there seems to be no reocognition amongst the inhabitants of conservativeland that this is a structured response, part of the discourse they inhabit, and that by engaging in it, they simply repeat the official line.
now remember: vote for the democrats=vote for terrorism.
this is the kind of thing that always works to keep an autonomous polity convinced of the power of the arguments advanced. nothing to do with herding. nothing at all.
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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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