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is, as i've long maintained, directly the result of your uncritical reproduction of longstandingly obsolete Europeon-centrick political theory!! No doubt garnered from many many hours of obedient study,,,, Really, IT IS about time you all move on!! You say: Movements across the political spectrum hardened the discourse, and our mission became increasingly contentious." ====== That's "client state" australia for you. It's just like the "sea change" in The Netherlands. The clincher being that the empire Told their satellite allies of the "Second World" to veritably "shape up". And get more snugly into the Given ideological line. Same thing with all the sudden changes in AOC for NL and likely Australia, et al. France? Germany? I don't know about them. I'm basing this view on not only Chomsky and various similars, but also Lawrence S. of Uncommon Desires fame. Over and over again, you Nice academics get out-flanked. Why? Because you adhere so uncritically, so rigidly, only to Libtard or Con-servative ideology, and Look Down on all others qualitively different!! And you get out-flanked time and time again. Very sad. Especially since this belief system seems to so deeply control 99% of "our" self-defenses! You said: The first question we need to figure out is, "where are we exactly?" and then "how the hell did we get here?" ==== Enuf said! "Nothing is more central to the maintenance of social order than the regulatory mechanisms employed to control and socialize our children."--Ronald Boostom