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for what it's worth, my basic position is as i've said--that the united states has suffered under 30 years of unbroken domination by an oligarchy that's comprised to two factions which represent different corporate sectors and which express slightly differing tactical views----but within the same basic neoliberal ideological framework.
i found george w bush to be profoundly distasteful---illegitimate wars, governing from a state of emergency, the pathological extension of the security state---and singularly inept in terms of economic policy---but the people who crafted those policies were often the same as who crafted most of the other major neoliberal initiatives that served the united states o so ambiguously.
neoliberalism is a retro-expression within the larger context of shifts in the way capitalism had been organized put into motion by the nixon administration. while it's not a lock-step thing by any means, structurally speaking we are almost 40 years into a post-fordist regime and haven't come up with a politically viable way to balance the effects of the geographical scattering of production against the requirements of a humane/functional modern society. debt bubbles haven't worked out so well. neither did stock bubbles. sooner or later there has to be an actual rethink of policy. i don't think obama is going to do it---too moderate. the right has absolutely nothing to offer. so we're adrift it looks like.
too bad this isn't a movie or we'd cut away until the next interesting plot bits start to turn up.
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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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