{"id":949,"date":"2004-11-05T02:15:41","date_gmt":"2004-11-05T10:15:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/2004\/11\/the_poetry_of_politics\/"},"modified":"2004-11-05T02:15:41","modified_gmt":"2004-11-05T10:15:41","slug":"the_poetry_of_politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2004\/11\/the_poetry_of_politics.html","title":{"rendered":"THE POETRY OF POLITICS"},"content":{"rendered":"

“Democrats face this terrible arithmetic<\/FONT><\/B><\/A>
\nin the Electoral College where if they don’t carry any of the 11 Southern states [of the Old
\nConfederacy] they need to win 70% of everything else,” says Merle Black, an expert on Southern
\npolitics at Emory University.

<\/I>BLESSED BE THE TRUE
\nBELIEVERS<\/B><\/P>
\n

A positive approach is needed
In these days of infamy;
Why not ask the Southern
\nstates
To re-form the Confederacy?

The folks of fervid faith can
\nchant,
“Holy, holy, hola!
O Lord, send us a worthy Son,
A Dixie
\nAyatollah.”<\/P>
\n

— Leon Freilich<\/EM><\/FONT><\/B><\/A>
\n<\/P>
\n


\n

And in response to this item<\/FONT><\/B><\/A> earlier today, our Calvin Trillin<\/FONT><\/B><\/A> writes:<\/P>
\n

THE HAVES AND THE HAVE-FEARS<\/B><\/P>
\n

The theocrats have Bush
And the plutocrats have Cheney;
And what do the rest of
\nus have?
A country going down the drainy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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