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Stephen, it is late here so I don't have the energy for a longer reply. The two are very closely aligned. What classically underwrites a democratic poetics is education. (Plato) Yet it is demonstrated again and again both education and democracy continually fail each other. What is happening now in Palestine has been happening since 1949 when British imperialism with the support of US and Australian imperial forces partitioned Palestine in the name of a democratic solution and the creation of the state of Israel. Israel has no right to exist, in the final analysis. Democracy underwritten by education is no resolution to the attempted genocide of Arab people which has been going on since 1949. I can have no faith in Clinton or the new US administration since they again have no resolution. Democracy is a farce with education holding up the mask that veils democracy from its farcical nature. On Mon, 2009-01-19 at 18:10 -0800, Stephen Vincent wrote: > > But to express it here in a constructive way seems crucial. I suspect > I am not alone in wanting ways to compel this new President - unlike > Bush - to refuse to condone and support this barbarism in our name.