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one of the interpretations that you are starting to see floating about is that the defeat yesterday was a kind of "popular revolt"---which is absurd on the face of it---an article in the always-questionable "time" magazine argues that this is the case, and that it is a culmination of the undermining of credibility in the political system as a whole as a result, in significant measure of 8 long years of the bush people and another 20 of free-marketeer idiocy as the dominant lingua franca. most of us have been fucked by "globalizing capitalism"----but in america land of the free blah blah blah, there seems to be no way for this kind of dissent to register at all.
let's say that time and others in the major media who are speaking in terms of what should be a legitimation crisis for the regime as a whole are correct.
if it's true, then the best move would be for the government to resign en masse and call for new elections across the board at the earliest possible date.
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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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