But now, we face political monsters worse than we imagined-- yes, worse than Cheney, worse than Bush, worse than Santorum.
Dante and his guide escape from the depths of hell by going even deeper, through the center of the earth until gravity reverses itself, coming out in another hemisphere, under a starry skied night.
Perhaps we on the left must truly face the depths of hell before we face the reality that politics and elections are truly, pathologically broken, that even justice is broken.
We live in a world that is guided by corporate and consumerist values and systems which cannot satisfy us. These fail to satisfy liberals and they will fail to satisfy members of the teaparty.
When those on the left and the right all hit bottom and realize that the problem, the roots of hell grow out of a broken political and election model that keeps a pathological system in place, perhaps then, we will, together break free of the system, dig ourselves out of the pit we find ourselves, our nation and in fantasies about Democracy and justice stuck within.
Dante and his guide escape from the depths of hell by going even deeper, through the center of the earth until gravity reverses itself, coming out in another hemisphere, under a starry skied night.
Perhaps we on the left must truly face the depths of hell before we face the reality that politics and elections are truly, pathologically broken, that even justice is broken.
We live in a world that is guided by corporate and consumerist values and systems which cannot satisfy us. These fail to satisfy liberals and they will fail to satisfy members of the teaparty.
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