On Apr 6, 2010, at 3:18 PM, Joseph Catron quoted:
> "Maria Harris-Lacewell is a professor at Princeton University, as so
> subtly alluded to in the above excerpt from her latest drivel for The
> Nation, and she's concerned about the 'legitimacy' of the state -- a
> legitimacy she assumes but doesn't explain -- which she notes some
> backwards reactionaries have had the temerity to challenge in the age
> of Democratic government. Now, considering that U.S. government
> imprisons more of its own citizens than any other in the history, with
> 25 percent of the world's prisoners; that it has more military bases
> in more countries than any previous empire in history, and has killed
> millions of people from Iraq to Vietnam; and that its current head,
> Barack Obama, is openly targeting for extrajudicial killing Americans
> and foreigners alike, one might ask: why is a liberal magazine so
> concerned about this state's legitimacy?
>
> "Because of the Tea Party movement, you see...
It's that, for sure, but it's also that the state is now controlled by MHL's great crush-object, BHO. For her, apparently, the state is about personalities, not structures. Her equations are similar to the TPers - she just reverses the signs.
Doug