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i actually dont have a consistent position on it.
there's a way in which i agree with you that we live under an oligarchy--but from a political position that i think is antithetical to yours.
i come out of a marxist background, theoretically, and the situation of what was once the left, and of the basic elements that mobilized folk politically, is such that i dont have much faith that there'd be a revolutionary movement any time soon that wouldn't be even more problematic than the stasis we currently endure.
so i make my choices about whether and how to participate in election politics on a kind of ad hoc basis.
usually it comes to the second option of the 3 i outlined above.
for example, if the next presidential election emerges from the field of people who now scuttle about the field, it'd definitely be number 2 (this in more than one sense)...
but i wouldn't vote for a libertarian. that is, however, a different discussion. we have been bumping into each other here long enough now that you probably can figure out why without my having to make a long tedious posts about it.
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
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