Election season always pulls me in two directions at the same time – I get more frustrated with radicals who refuse to acknowledge important differences in degree of evil. But I’m also yet more convinced that the state as such is evil. I’m thinking like a liberal Karl Rove, knowing exactly how the electoral politics sausage gets made and taking on the psychopathic mentality it takes to pull that lever in this trolley problem. And I’m also thinking who keeps tying people to tracks? Why are we as a population that will say por que no los dos about having both a cinnamon bun and a breakfast burrito for breakfast not stopping to think that maybe we can care about all persons everywhere without any exceptions or qualifications?
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