#title the endless merry-go-round
#subtitle an edist.ro collection on electoral politics
#author silberfuchs
#LISTtitle endless merry-go-round
#SORTtopics us, electoralism, edist.ro collection
#date 2021
#lang en
#pubdate 2021-09-16T18:11:44
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Can you hear the music? Can you smell the popcorn and fried whatever-on-a-stick? It’s almost like it’s time for the fair again. Snake oil salesmen mobbing you while cutting through the air-conditioned exhibition hall, some selling emu oil that claims to cure Covid, some promising reforms of this or that, telling you how ***committed*** they are: “***this time is different!***” they’ll say.
We’ve seen this movie before. And we all know how it ends. The bold reform becomes the watered down compromise which becomes the limited underfunded pilot program that dies a slow death.
Police “reform!” Low-income housing! Programs for our unhoused neighbors!
All promised by a smiling former hockey star with immaculate teeth and well-groomed hair.
“This time” will never be different. These texts were selected to help you understand why.
with love for Minneapolis,
silberfuchs
September 2021