On 11/22/08, Louis Proyect <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
