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i don't think most of you get what's happening.
there is no particular relevance in what a group of guys sitting around a table in 1788 thought about what might happen over 200 years later as they were trying to fashion a constitution. if in this context, that's what you think about, then you're running away from reality. pure and simple. nothing more, nothing less.
it's no wonder conservatives have a problem with obama at this point. not only has nothing been demonstrated about the effectiveness of his actions up to this point, not only does the right have a brand credibility problem, but the basic situation created by capitalist transformation outstrips their most basic categories for thinking about capitalism. i don't see why anyone takes the right seriously. i think it is a mistake for obama to play around with the republicans when he is in a position to not do it. i understand the gesture, but for fucks sake the right's got nothing to say at all of any interest or utility. unless you confuse brand identity preservation with something bigger than it is. but that'd be wrong.
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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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