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what the right is arguing is a return to systematic denial of reality.
if "confidence" in markets can be collapsed into "confidence" that you look like a movie star today so head out there into the world and be perky, then this brilliant piece of logic follows:
if the latter is lying to yourself on a small scale, then the former is lying to yourself on a big scale.
so the important "idea" that the right is floating amounts to: lie to us so we can feel better.
as if that was not stupid enough, they have the audacity to tack on these fatuous claims of "fearmongering"---that obama is "fearmongering"----this from the same people who supported the bush people's "war on terror."
how on earth do they expect anyone to take this seriously?
what kind of degenerate condition is conservativeland in these days?
i think they'd be better off tearing it down rather than trying to rebuild on top of ruins.
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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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