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Entry: Where The Grapes Of Wrath Are Stored Link: http://www.takimag.com/blogs/article/where_the_grapes_of_wrath_are_stored#25336 Post contents: I think some historical context could help in these logomachies about “nationalism,” which first arises as a revolutionary ideology both in Tudor England and Jacobin France along with massive internal repression: the transfer of wealth and resources from one class to another, inquisitions, persecutions, torture, scapegoating enemies and ideological criminalization. Here and now we have the whole kit: the rampage of finance, the Patriot and Military Commissions Acts, internment, torture, the abrogation of the Bill of Rights, Islamo-viral nightmares and hallucinations, and HR 1955, The American Inquisition. The “proposition” involved in this “proposition nation” is hardly calm or rational so your analysis seems somehow incommensurate to account for what is at stake. I mean, is this like just for fun “Take the test! Are you a patriot or a nationalist? Sent at: 2008 10 07