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for me, these are the horse latitudes politically.
the bush administration is still in power.
the ideological climate has shifted out from under the administration, but it is still in power.
the fiasco of the iraq war is now self-evident--from its inception through to the present (the admin is requesting another 8000 troops---according to the guardian, yet another request is coming in may---there is no discrete endpoint for this "surge"--so it appears that the "surge" is best spelled ESCALATION in the grand vietnam stylee--this despite the story floating about this morning that the us is now planning to withdraw entirely if the "surge" doesnt work....)
but the administration is still in power.
i recently watched the spike lee documentary about katrina and nola---shocking stuff--unbelievable non-action from this administration, needlessly compounding already overwhelming suffering---but they are still in power.
the abuse of the judiciary--from guantanomo to the purging of district attorneys through the "expansive" interpretation informational gathering prerogatives accorded the fbi under the patriot act---all obvious. but the administration is still in power.
the list of incoherences could go on and on.
what is there to say?
i dont find this to be a climate that makes how i think about politics in the states to be more open than it had been....i dont find this a climate that provides much change in fundamental problems...i dont particularly enjoy the sense of writing the same thing over and over...so i have found myself fading out a bit.
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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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