jorgelito--
in a general way, sure. but only in a VERY general way: for your post to be accurate at the level of detail, you'd have to assume that both parties are jockeying in the same way for the same demographics--which is not the case--particularly not in the context of the primary season.
working with discursive differences can simply be an analytic move, one that does not necessarily reflect any commitment one way or another. so it follows that by highlighting the ways in which the republicans are boxed in by their own organizational choices doesn't position me any particular place--i'm just looking in this case.
obviously, this is not a claim for objectivity---i work from definite political views, like anyone else---but the fact is that i dont personally identify with any enthusiasm at all with the democrats--i'm among that sector that is inclined to vote for the democrats as the lesser evil----and even that is sometimes hard to maintain. in the tiny world of tfp politics, i rarely post defenses of the democrats--in general, i dont find them worth defending.
i haven't been inclined to lay out my own political positions here in much detail--i operate more from a critical/analytic perspective. i get positioned by other comrades, but generally they are just making up what they impute to me, in my view, trying to put me somewhere. it's a function of a strange compulsion to make the american political spectrum into something that it's not-----a diverse space--and to map everyone and everything onto that construct.
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