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no, ace, i really don't agree with your claim that the problem of warped perspective on the american political spectrum is shared. i think the perspective i outlined is an entirely conservative phenomenon---by which i now refer to that type of conservatism which is heading at speed into the toilet, dragged into it in significant measure by this sort of thinking---which (again) is geared to appeal to a sense of identity, not to a thinking person who seriously weighs arguments. there is no merit--at all--to the conservative-specific claim that obama is a socialist. there is no argument for it. there is no data to back it up. it is not a claim that you make to folk who do not already share your map of the world. people who share your map are most likely brought to that because it is a part of being-conservative in that now-hopefully-outmoded way of being as a human being conservative and not being a thinking person who happens to find conservative arguments compelling on this or that issue.
i am referring to the LANGUAGE of populist conservative ideology--to be clear---and how that language stages relations to being conservative.
i mention this again because i am not interested in you defending yourself against a personal attack that i am not making.
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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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