that's how bad things have gotten - an intelligent, sophisticated, and rational person like Jenny can suggest suspension of an election and it doesn't sound at all far-fetched. An old friend of Liza's, and now of mine, also intelligent, sophisticated, and rational, thinks there won't be an election in 2008. Scary, no?
martin replied:
Not nearly as scary as the appearance that so many "... elite intellectuals, ..." are dismissing these perceptions and their holders as conspiracy nuttiness or worse - stupid, irrational and unsophisticated.
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Exactly right.
I've noticed that there's no broad consensus on how serious a threat the Bushies pose to, well, everyone actually.
To some who possess a deep familiarity with American crimes - folks who can recite without hesitation every *covert op*, every invasion, every check written to a friendly tyrant - the Bush administration is merely the latest in a long string of organized crime syndicates. Perhaps a little wilder but then again, even that assertion becomes a debating point.
It seems that for such people, the more they know about past outrages the less clearly they can see the present situation's unique shape.
It's difficult to settle upon an intelligent course forward if you can't even agree upon the level of danger faced.
I think this is the source of a fair bit of the disagreements over how to handle the matter of the 2004 election.
DRM
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