I think that socialists and radicals---esp those who are ground-level organizers and not in electoral politics---should keep hating HRC/BHO.
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After all, blood still cries for blood---there is blood on the hands of liberal power and someone must cry out for that blood.
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However---we also must recognize, even if subconsciously, implicitly, that someone has to run the system we have.
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the evil system we have, the capitalist system we have, the oppressive system we have, the white supremacist system we have...
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Someone has to run that system. And it can be run in a more harmful way or a less harmful way. We have to understand that.
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Can Barack Obama be your comrade at the same time as a poor Pakistani child murdered at Barack Obama's command is your comrade? I doubt it.
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Can you have radical empathy for BHO at the same time as you have radical empathy for a poor murdered Pakistani child? Yes, I think so.
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So how do we frame the function of the good king? How do we frame the notion of a good king for the peasantry?
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How do we oppose the institution of the monarchy, but welcome the relatively more moral execution of that institution?
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