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so what we have learned is that on a larger-scale level the republicans appear to be attempting to manage a veering toward the center, but without at this point much luck. there's a couple explanations for it, one of which is that the right media apparatus has lost the capacity to frame the pronouncements and ritualized movements that emanate from the various well-appointed bunkers that run the show in conservativeland. now there's all this unseemly infotainment about the koch brothers and their corporate-fascist worldview and ordering the employees of all their bidness holdings to vote republican and threatening them with termination if they didnt do it; and grover norquist and the various ultra-reactionary tax and anti-union bills his vile little organization has reduced to templates to be picked up by state-level far right activists to wreak havoc there; there's attention to the various racist statements from tea party asshats in the oc and elsewhere. the right media apparatus cannot manage the terms of economic debate in the way it had been able to. most of its moves and agendas are being connected back to class interests---which has always been the case---that the right has combined advancing a particularly myopic version of the class interests of the upper one percent of income holders in the states via a strange coalition of social reactionaries, libertarian free marketeers and other religious zealots and neo-fascists--all courtesy of ralph reed's remaking of the astro-turf department within the republican party, so as a supplement to the goldwater republicans...but i digress.
rove is altogether too visible. i think the game for the style of far-right political discourse the dominance of which has been bought and paid for by the same interests that now find themselves outed, i think that game is over.
so the movements of the republican party are far more visible than they were.
at the micro-level, the movement amongst those few people who actually believe the nonsense that the right media apparatus is selling is to talk about themselves and their "core beliefs" and to do so in a way that implies that there is no movement of the republican party really that it's all superficial, that what matters is belief as if being conservative was like being christian or being an adherent of any other religious sect.
so unpleasant reality bits can be dissolved by dodging the facts and shifting to belief.
it happens a lot.
well, it happens a lot here.
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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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