Bushbama |
Famosa frase de Tandredi em Il Gattopardo
Obamabush |
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the
monochrome ideological universe in which the system is plunged: an
all-capitalist order, without a hint of social-democratic weakness or independent
political organization by labour. The two parties that inhabit it, Republican
and Democratic, have exchanged social and regional bases more than once since
the Civil War, without either ever questioning the rule of capital. Since the
1930s there has been a general, if not invariable, tendency for those at the
bottom of the income pyramid—should they cast a ballot, which large numbers do
not—to vote Democrat, and those at the top, Republican. Such preferences
reflect the policies by and large pursued by the two parties: Democratic
administrations have typically been more redistributive downwards than
Republican, in an alignment shadowing, without exactly reproducing, divisions
between left and right elsewhere. But these are rarely differences of principle.
A salient feature of the consensus on which the system rests is the flexibility
of relative positions it allows. Policies associated with one party can migrate
to the other, not infrequently assuming forms in the cross-over more radical
than they possessed in their original habitat."
Trecho de artigo de Perry Anderson, "Consilium" publicado este ano na New Left Review 83
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