(I
again feel the need to apologize for the long delays between posts: I
am still recovering from a nearly fatal illness, a process my physician
tells me will probably take at least seven more weeks. Hence I have
decided to try a new approach to filling this space, writing shorter,
more specifically focused and therefore more frequent essays rather than
allowing material to accumulate into long multi-topic texts as I have
done in the past. While I can't promise I'll succeed – health crises and
other unanticipated interruptions seem to be the bane of my old age –
I'll damn sure do my best to better serve you, my faithfully patient
readers, to whom my most emphatic thanks.)
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THE PATHETIC OPTIMISM of the Empire's self-proclaimed “progressives” – those corporate Neoliberals (aka “Democrats”) whose pretend obliviousness
to the tyranny of USian governance reduces their claims of humanitarian
consciousness and democratic values to Big Lies – was never more
obvious than in the prelude to the gleefully genocidal atrocity approved last week by the Republican House of Representatives. Up until the moment the so-called “American Health Care Act” passed by a 217-213 vote, We the People were repeatedly assured this euphemistically disguised program of mass murder by denial of health care would probably again be defeated as it was in March.
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LB/7-8 May 2017
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