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yeah, see pan there are problems when you let yourself get too upset as you write--you start collapsing things into each other, setting up straw men, indulging empty slogans...not that a lyric from john lennon is other than empty when it comes to politics ("working class hero" anyone?)....you can't seem to separate when this fiasco started from where it currently is, you forget who did what, which administration did what. you've come to the SHOCKING conclusion that, without people knowing it, there's been a class war unfolding in the united states--but who the hell didn't notice it? it was the main feature of conservative economic policies...the largest concentration of wealth yet recorded anywhere ever...if that's not class war, then what the hell is?
so it seems to me that much of what you seem upset about is that you've suddenly discovered this class warfare which has been characteristic of the policies pursued by conservative neoliberals for many years, and all the more that this class war has had consequences which screw over people like you and me.
but where i get confused is in your reactions to this discovery or realization---and how you manage to collapse the whole of this onto the obama administration. which i am not an unequivocal fan of, btw. not at all--but it nonetheless makes sense to keep the factual dimension of things straight so that discussion doesn't endlessly get derailed on problems created at that level.
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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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