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the tea party is ace on a national scale. a whole riot of them. when obama compromised they tried to change what they had been asking for. o wait---that's ok? we don't want that any more. we're ideologically pure. we have sophistries that "prove" the "real issue" is spending and not the consequences of exactly the approach to taxes that we still endorse. so what if tax cuts don't produce what's promised? so what if our theory has no predictive value? what is a theory? for us, a theory is a something that we like. we like it so we repeat it. we will continue to say the same thing over and over again as if by repeating it the lunacy of what we are saying will go away. because we believe. we believe. wait. that's ok? we didn't want that. we never wanted that. we wanted something else. this now. we want this now. we have always wanted this. the past? what past? we are here. we believe. we like believing. let us repeat.
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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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