[lbo-talk] termitude

[Gar Lipow]

On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 10:35 AM, Dennis Claxton
<ddclaxton at earthlink.net> wrote:
> But it's worse with every cycle.  We're ever closer to Norquist's dream of
> shrinking government until you can drown it in a bathtub, excepting defense
> of course.
>
> I am by no means objective about what will happen in the near future because
> I have a daughter who is a decade plus one year old.  She has dual EU/US
> citizenship and with each passing day I think more often of encouraging her
> to pack her bags and leave as soon as she's out of high school.  I hadn't
> before but I am also now thinking of joining her.

I'm not objective either. I know many of us have struggled a long time
without many results. But  people in  Haiti who were too poor to have
shovels, who lacked even drinking water still made the effort to dig
others out of the rubble with their finger nails. Saturday, I heard a
representative of the Honduran mental health workers union who didn't
let being shot keep him from continuing to fight the coup. After a
brief (and not very well organized) tour here in the U.S., he will go
back to Honduras.

We just have to continue to fight. But I'm not against a realistic
assessment of the situation as a coping strategy. Personally, at the
moment, I'm experimenting with really deep denial.