round out

let's vegetate on this one. sledgehammer rhetoric is accessible if spoken with a megaphone, with an audience ready to pounce. not all is lost in such a meeting of, well, desperation. finger pointing aside (see last post). it's high time to retreat and gather new insights. seriously, if you want to talk politics like it's 1992, then go to a cal seminar, listen to npr, buy the lakoff book. whatever. the far left has two positions right now. the moralist (arrest the war criminals) and the legalist (arrest the war criminals). out on a huge sound stage (the world) without a map or spotlight (a local audience). these are the most immediate panaceas to getting hold of a lever of power, and yanking it permanently. does it mean that bernie sanders, dennis kucinich and ron paul are the only ones left standing. is america the most de-politicized country ever? i fear the answer, so i'll just side step it. america has politicized the body, ethnicity, and (somewhat) gender assignment. anything else? is the centrist democrat, with a soft spot for reagan, an international trojan horse for the triumpth of state-corporate capitalism? if there aren't any 1st world economies, then we're still a upstanding success, right?