second thoughts
all through the 2016 preidential campaign i was puzzling over which political figure don trump reminded me of and i started this blog when i startled myself by realizing it was slobodan milosevic and his use of the kosovar serbs as a political foil...and i abandoned it fairly soon after when the results of the 2020 election were in and the premise of a national disintegration seemed to become absurd...events of the past few months ( and even moreso the past few weeks ) have me rethinking that...california national guard to portland ( a progressive city still,i think, imbued with the spirit of the iww )...texas national guard to chicago...cowboys on the south side? a recipe for a disaster and i begin to think that is exactly the point...this is not about "fighting crime" or "insurrection"...it is planned provocation designed to establish or excacerbate civil unrest as a rationale for further authortatian measures...the federal government is an abstration at best a...