Poll Leez State?

[umberto rossi]

In data 21 May 2004, verso le 23:38, Terrance si trovò a scrivere su 
re: Poll Leez  State? :

> What Pynchon argues in VL and elsewhere is that business and
> the interests it dominates have largely controlled American politics for a
> very long time. Even the liberal socialist politics of the New Deal and
> the Great Society were manufactured and produced by business interests in
> order to meet their own economic needs while simultaneously responding to
> and defusing popular protests.  Labor was defeated by business. VL is the
> story of Labor's Defeat.

But weren't police forces instrumental in that defeat and what 
followed? Anyway, there is a connection between liberist politics and 
a strongly repressive use of police. Underpaid jobs and unemployment 
lead to crime, crime is answered by repression. Right wing 
governments in the US (and here) insist on the issues of security, 
war on drugs, war on this, war on that. War on anything. Plus social 
control and intelligence. A bigger military apparate and a bigger 
police apparate. A display of destructive and repressive power which 
both Bush & friends and Berlusconi & friends like very much. State 
funds are no more invested in welfare, but in police and defence. 
That what has happened in the US since 1980, and what is happening 
here now. No surprise if "we" are both in Iraq, and George W. and 
Silvio are in love. Basically the idea is "scare people and you'll 
win": Republican electoral strategy, imported by Forza Italia here. 
And that's one of the main issues in Vineland.

umberto rossi
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