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Barack Obama is the perfect representation of his party. He is a man who fully accepts all of the illiberal precepts of Empire (and the inevitable process through which they are “blown back” into the very center of our body politic) who simultaneously seeks, through the calculated deployment of his supposed reasonableness and condition as a man from an historically maltreated minority, to imbue this same-old, same-old system of predation with an air of moral redemption.

And guess what?

Most people on the so-called liberal wing of the party still lap this stuff up. They have lived so long within the metaphor or simulacrum of liberalism that they no longer have much, if any, understanding of the bracing imperatives of the real thing.

This is why they spend so much time talking about Bush, Palin and McCain and so little time talking in policy-specific terms (the only proven way to hold politicians to account) about ways to change the world we will be handing on to our children.

It will remain this way until enough of them become intimately reacquainted with the concepts that gave birth to this country and begin to admit to themselves just how absolutely incompatible they are with, for example, any person or entity that regularly (and apparently shamelessly) incinerates innocent Pakistanis from unarmed drones or thinks it is all right invade and bomb other countries and kill their leaders at will.


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