So What If Democrats Lose the Senate?

The Politics of Aesthetics
by ANDREW LEVINE, Counterpunch.org

As a professional corporate putain, this woman is even more dangerous than Obama, and similarly opportunistic.

As a professional corporate putain, this woman is even more dangerous than Obama, and similarly opportunistic.

A midterm election is coming; the media are gearing up.   The electoral circus will soon be in everybody’s face again, making a mockery of every democratic ideal.

ANDREW LEVINE is a Senior Scholar at the Institute for Policy Studies, the author most recently of THE AMERICAN IDEOLOGY (Routledge) and POLITICAL KEY WORDS (Blackwell) as well as of many other books and articles in political philosophy. His most recent book is In Bad Faith: What’s Wrong With the Opium of the People. He was a Professor (philosophy) at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a Research Professor (philosophy) at the University of Maryland-College Park.  He is a contributor to Hopeless: Barack Obama and the Politics of Illusion (AK Press).