Re: [Pen-l] "center-right" president?

[Sandwichman <lumpoflabor@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 11/22/08, Louis Proyect <lnp3@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>  Of course. And what will happen is 4 years of ineffective, centrist
> bullshit that will make the misery of the American people only 90 percent of
> what it would be under the Republicans. And in the next election, the
> Republicans will run a demagogic campaign that promises to fix the mess that
> the Democrats made. A Republican president will then push politics 30
> degrees to the right making people just as pissed off as they were under the
> Democrats. And in 2016 the Democrats will nominate DLC'er Harold Ford who
> the Nation Magazine will support because he is not as bad as Mitt Romney or
> whoever. This is like being stuck in a Samuel Beckett play that has no
> conclusion.

There's a fine line between expectation and desire. Sometimes, when
people have been disappointed too many times, they come to secretly
desire that they will continue to be "disappointed" -- except that
next time the disappointment will come as fulfillment because they
didn't really expect anything better. "Damn! I knew it was going to
happen." It IS like being stuck in a Samuel Beckett play. But admit
that in a Beckett play the characters are very much authors of their
own absurd non-destinies.

-- 
Sandwichman
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