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you're voting, it seems, based on identification, which is different from sharing values. you excuse anything that is done by a conservative because of this and nothing that is done by anyone else for the same reason. this circuit of projection/identification in the place of thinking about policies and how they might address basic problems is infantile. i don't blame you for that, ace, because you perform the relation that is prescribed for you by the political discourse that you invest in.
this is not about what you think so much as about who you imagine yourself to be. who you imagine yourself to be and who you imagine sarah palin to be are close enough that you put yourself in her position. so rather than thinking about abuse of power, you think "i'd have done that" because you're so much like her. you're so much like her because she's so much like you. that's why you support her. it's like supporting yourself. so there is no particular distinction between your subjective world and the world other people know about because you're so much like her. so instead of thinking about the world, you groove to elective affinity. because you're told to.
because you want to be told to.
because you're so much like her.
and she'd want you to want to be told to.
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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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