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not being a prophet, even after a few lovely malt beverages, i have no idea what the future will hold.
if obama wins, i think he inherits a shitty situation thanks to the republicans and their idiotic neoliberal worldview. i cannot tell at this point exactly what that situation will look like, any more than you can--things keep changing, as they do. i don't have a particular degree of faith that obama will be able to break with that nitwit socio-economic worldview in a manner that's hard enugh to address the structural crises that the republicans have created (like it or not-neoliberalism crosses party lines--clinton was one of you, the entirety of the republican party was as well--the left/right spectrum that conservatives pretend describes the world is meaningless except as the private language of conservatives--and you know what they say about private languages)...
but i have some hope that he would be able to do that.
i have no hope---at all---at any level---that john mc-cain would be able to deal with the problems that he will have to address straight away. i have no reason--at all--to think that a "maverick" republican whose maverickness consisted in supporting the bush administration 90% of the time will be able to think far enough outside the ideology that 3 months ago he endorsed enough to deal with the problems created by that ideology.
i just don't buy the arguments he floats.
i dont believe him, i dont believe his campaign. i think mc-cain is a direct route onto the shoals. go there if you want, but i want no part of it.
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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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