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Forgive me, friends, I've been a little obsessive about politics lately. I lived through the Nixon & Reagan administrations, but I have never felt as much despair about American national life--political, social & cultural--as I do right now. When Nixon & Kissinger were bombing Cambodia (to select just one example) & I went out into the streets with thousands of others, I felt personally imperiled, but my sense of the country was that if we could just end that terrible, worthless war in Southeast Asia, I would have my country back. These days, I have the sense that even if the Bush administration manages to wind down the Iraq adventure, nothing decisive will occur. The country will continue its slide toward oligarchy if Bush is elected in 2004. The war in Iraq will be the least of our problems. Funny how politics becomes history & an obsession with politics becomes an obsession with history.
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