The New York Times published this
lovely photograph of the latest
resort of politics to Washington
Square, reminding one and all of
the genius of the Electoral Col-
lege to ignore such excesses of
popular sentiment, with a sage
hypervaluation of our agrarian
wastes. Emma Goldman, eat your
heart out: what happens in
Greenwich Village stays there,
give or take a Weather Under-
ground brownstone bomb blunder.
But of course, it's true. Of
the many ways this republic
has invented or adapted to re-
duce its vulnerability to any
reckless reliance upon one
person, one vote, nothing has
outdone good, old-fashioned
shaming of the call for that
human right, itself. Hence,
our President's excoriation
of homelessness, as a blight
on the prestige of Nob Hill.
This proficiency in oligar-
chy's seizure of power in the
United States, has meant that
the electorate isn't remotely
a wellspring of policy, but
manipulable blocs, exploitable
for permits to rule over them.
But I stray. It was a pleasant
evening in Washington Square.
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