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i agree with dc that term limits are not going to do anything. well, that's not true: what they'll do is increase the speed of faction rotation within the plutocracy and increase the technical incompetence of the people who's gig it is to fashion, assess and vote on legislation. it'll devolve enormous power onto unelected staff members who will become respositories of continuity and competence to an even greater extent. it'll also likely increase the roles of (largely conservative) think-tanks and those little bullet-summaries of legislation that over-worked staffers can use like cliff notes to appear get briefed on bills they may not have time to review and to acquire the think-tanks ideological interpretation of the bill along with a pre-fab recommendations for votes. it'll also push more power into the degenerate machinery of the major political parties by requiring the development of political farm teams and creating problem of fund-raising continuity that would, logically, devolve back onto the party machines.
tea party positions: it's difficultto imagine a level of naivete sufficient to accept them. i mean, seriously?
i'm interested in the 15M movement that's taking shape in spain which is a left-oriented popular move inspired by egypt and tunisia that emphasizes direct democratic process and is occupying central public spaces in several spanish cities as i write this. the movement is entirely against the whole neo-liberal logic--which it the only coherence that american conservatives have---so it's entirely opposed to the dominant ideology in the united states--and the political structure that serves it and which it serves---and the fake/stupid/debilitating choices that ideology leaves folk with in times of crisis like this....
the right has nothing to say. it has nothing coherent to offer. it is merely about itself trying to survive. maybe soon people in the us will start to catch up with egypt and tunisia.
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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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