On 10/16/05, Charles Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The lack of differentiation between Democrats and Republicans is a main > piece of evidence of the unity, not division, of the U.S. ruling class. > Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum are on the same team and they know it. Denying > or ignoring as unimportant specific plots tends to hide this fact of unity > between Dems and Reps. > > In fact , one of the main ongoing, institutional even, conspiracies in the > U.S. political system is that between the Dems and Reps. > > > CB
------------------------ This of course banalizes/trivializes the ascription of the term conspiracy. When the Dems. meet to plot strategy over legislation at Morton's Steak House on Prospect St. in Georgetown [DC] is that a conspiracy or just politics as usual? Just where/when does one draw the conspiracy/nonconspiracy line when one is suggesting narratives/explanations of political behavior by various groups and factions of the populace? The polysemous concept *conspiracy* is an essentially contestable/ed concept. Ian
