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The Great Moving Right Show

 I really liked this week's readings, especially The Great Moving Right Show, and its connections to our current U.S. political landscape. I had so many notes in my margins that spoke directly to what is, and has been, happening and I really look forward to discussing in class! In particular, I want to talk more about the contradiction(s) Hall discusses in The Great Moving Right Show. Hall writes "It is always the case that the Right is what it is partly because of what the Left is" which seems tied into the contradictions within social democracy and the overall moving right show (391). Still, it seems like this contradiction can simultaneously be the spot of revolution - is a contradiction also a possible vacuum (Cruz, 2015, p. 436)? Hall writes, "When, in a crisis, the traditional alignments are disrupted, it is possible, on the very ground of this break, to construct the people into a populist political subject: with, not against, the power bloc (384). Is this the same terrain on which forces against the power bloc can organize? How do we push the contradiction to a vacuum? 

I'm also interest in talking more about consent. Can we ever not consent? Don't we all, in varying degrees, consent (we have jobs, use money, etc)? Does consent actually exist then and, if so, where does the revolution come from resistance?

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