first off, the last line of mr jazz's post above deserves to be highlighted, so there we are.
second: i'm not talking about ideals in my last post: i'm talking about something far more functional in what i guess i'd call an operational understanding of what this political system is, which is an extension of ideology (the structured relations to the system as a whole, which in turn shapes attitudes toward that system, both internally (amongst members of the polity) and from the outside (international community which watches and reads off what is done or not done information about the american system)...it was meant simply to say that there seem to me to be quite broad implications around this matter that become clear only if you switch the way you see this for a minute (think of it as an experiment)---at bottom, the idea was to link the authoritarian drift in american politics back to the conservative ideology that enabled it from 2001....and so see in the paralysis of the system insofar as doing anything to hold this administration to account for itself, for its actions, particularly in iraq something symptomatic of that greater problem.
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
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