> "The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Napoleon," 1852
The Eighteenth Brumaire makes the insightful claim that "the state power is not suspended in air." To apply this to the analysis of likely similarities and differences between Kerry and Bush versions of "state power," you need to examine the kind of self-consciousness that would underpin each, don't you? To find support in this kind of analysis for your claims, wouldn't you have to show that, on balance, the self-consciousness productive of an electoral victory for Kerry would be more "prejudiced" and "superstitious" (i.e. less "enlightened") than the self-consciousness productive of an electoral victory for Bush?
Ted