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so wait. this "logic" about state spending decisions happening based on no constraints whatsoever--what fantasy space is that part of?
o wait, i know: the state doesn't work on explicitly conservative lines, so there are no lines. the logic isn't conservative-centric so there isn't one. unless the state totally submits to a logic that is somewhere between monetarism-lite and libertarian, anything goes. this way you don't have to think real hard about the basis for objecting to program x as over against program y: its all unfettered anyway, but if you like a program or sector, then it's "responsible" (grotesque levels of expenditure on the military, say) but that "responsible" verdict relies on other fantasies ("the war on terror")...if you don't like program y, then it's a "problem" (o i dunno...taxation, say) and this verdict also relies on other fantasies (taking away my shit, giving it to people less deserving than me)...
so its a space of self-reinforcing, self-confirming delusion. you don't need to look at messy things like reality. why bother? the world is SO simple this way.
and this is what i was talking about with an ideology that's symmetrical with the collapse of empire.
and empire is in this case the whole of the post-world war 2 capitalist order.
it's all finished now.
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otto: that'd be the logical parallel.
sadly, obama is way more centrist than was fdr and way more willing to play the bipartisan game. the political context is way more reactionary as well.
but at least in your version, things follow logically.
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