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the tea party, present company included, is not advancing an agenda that makes any sense outside a particular, pathological framework.
the tea party, present company included, refuses to participate in political discussion.
their premises, which are eminently falsifiable in the world that exists outside the shared imaginary construction that makes tea party people what they are. but they proceed as if this were not the case, and hedge their lunatic discourse round with rhetorical moves that are designed to prevent critique from registering. they are in these ways **profoundly** anti-democratic.
in a democratic context, it is not only possible but desirable---necessary---for incoherent/obsolete/pathological claims to be demolished and their partisans to be marginalized from discussion.
if this was a democratic context, there would be no space for the sociopaths of the tea party to talk from. that their positions exist as a vaguely legitimate option is a demonstration in and of itself of the soft-authoritarian situation under which we all operate.
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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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