Monday - October 17, 2005
See you later, agitator.
Two political posts in one
day.
I am wary of extraordinary presidential powers. I am just as wary of those who intend to use the existence of the document as an excuse to raise the shade of martial law, as parents do the bogeyman.
Like many middle-class parents, I am torn between the politics of convenience and appeasement and capitalism, and the politics of justice and preference for the poor. I try very hard to imagine the gray in between, hoping we can all live there in peace somehow, and what I get in my head is protesters being hosed down by smiling riot police. ("Preemptive strike" assumes those striking preemptively are quite sure of what they're preempting. )
I imagine us sitting on a long, long fence that joins the horizon, clutching our children, apprehensively watching the wind.
I am wary of extraordinary presidential powers. I am just as wary of those who intend to use the existence of the document as an excuse to raise the shade of martial law, as parents do the bogeyman.
Like many middle-class parents, I am torn between the politics of convenience and appeasement and capitalism, and the politics of justice and preference for the poor. I try very hard to imagine the gray in between, hoping we can all live there in peace somehow, and what I get in my head is protesters being hosed down by smiling riot police. ("Preemptive strike" assumes those striking preemptively are quite sure of what they're preempting. )
I imagine us sitting on a long, long fence that joins the horizon, clutching our children, apprehensively watching the wind.