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I Think If You're Going To Make Political Art, You Have To Engage At Some Level. You Can't Just Write About Politics, You Have To Try And Be Politics As Well.

What Happened On September 11 Wasn't The First Act Of War, It Was The Most Unspeakable Act Of Murder And Terrorism. But It Was Construed By A Very Small Group Of People - There Is No Army Out There In The Dark Waiting To Take Over America. It's Like Being Stung By A Bee And Going Out And Smashing Up A Beehive, And Thinking You've Solved The Problem. There Are More Beehives Out There; More Bees Will Come. But They're Bees. They're Not Grizzly Bears.

If You Can't See That The Glass Is Half Full, You Can Never Be A Socialist. You Have To Believe In The Goodness Of The Majority Of People To Be A Socialist. You Have To Believe That If The Majority Of People Had Their Way, They Would Make A Society That Would Be Fair For Everyone. If You Don't Believe That, And If You Think That The Glass Is Always Half Empty, Then You're Never Going To Have That Sensibility.

We've Heard So Much About The American Dream: Well, Trump Is The American Nightmare Made Flesh. All The Things About 'the Ugly American' That We Worry About And Which The Americans See In Themselves, It's All Of That. This Is A Politics Of Egotistical Display.

At Some Point In Your Life You Have To Engage With The Fact That You Are Part Of A Society. Yeah The Individual Is The Most Important Facet In Society But Unless Every Individual Is The Recipient Of Free Health Care, Free Education Decent Affordable Housing And A Proper Pension Then Only The Rich And Powerful Will Be Individuals And The Rest Of Us Will Be Exploited By Them.