2AC - Heidegger

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• conditions. We can engage in particular politics and still investigate ontology.
  
  Yar 2000
  
  (Majid – tutor in the Department of Sociology @ Lancaster University and recently completed PhD exploring the relation between ethical inter-subjectivity) “ARENDT'S HEIDEGGERIANISM: CONTOURS OF A `POSTMETAPHYSICAL' POLITICAL THEORY?) in Cultural Values Vol 4 Issue 1 (Jan)
  
  
  
  If the presently available menu of political engagements
  
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  be to the benefit of all parties concerned.
  
  
  Extinction outweighs ontology – existence is a prerequisite for the self
  
  Wapner, Associate Professor of Global Environmental Politics at American, 2003
  
  [Paul Wapner is associate professor and director of the Global Environmental Policy Program at American University, DISSENT / Winter 2003] JFS
  
  
  
  All attempts to listen to nature are,
  
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  , in some fashion, of environmental preservation.
  
  
  
  
  There is always value to life – external claims about others’ value to life destroy individual autonomy
  
  Schwartz, Professor of Philosophy at Glasgow, 2003
  
  (Lisa, “The Value to Life: Who Decides and How?” www.fleshandbones/readingroom/pdf/399.pdf)
  
  
  
  The second assertion made by supporters of the
  
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  by the person concerned and not by others.
  
  
  
  
  Turn – basing politics on Being leads to the acceptance of violence and death
  
  Caputo 93. John D, Villanova Philosophy Professor. “Against Ethics” Google Books [Accessed 2/8/10]. /sal
  
  
  
  That would mean you cannot have an obligation
  
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  a mnemo-technique for remembering proper names.
  

  
  
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2AC - Capitalism

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  3. Perm – do both – risk of cooption isn’t a reason to abandon the plan, instead it’s a reason to be cautious but use the state against itself

  Zizek, Professor at the University of Ljublana, 2004 (Slavoj, interviewed by Eric Dean Rasmussen, “Liberation Hurts: An Interview with Slavoj Zizek,” The Electronic Book Review, July 1, 2004, )

   

  Zizek: I’m trying to avoid two extremes

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  act will trigger a much more radical process.

   

  4. Neoliberal globalization solves war – no market incentive

  Bandow, Senior Fellow at the Cato Institute 2005

   (Doug, Spreading Capitalism is Good for Peace, [gjm] 11/15/2005)

  In a world that seems constantly aflame,

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  short of war to achieve foreign policy ends.

   

   

  B) Capitalism is sustainable – it’s used to struggles

  Foster 9 (JD, Norman B. Ture Senior Fellow in the Economics of fiscal policy – Heritage Foundation, "Is Capitalism Dead? Maybe," 3-11, http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=101694302)

   

  Capitalism is down. It may even be

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  repeat the cycle again sometime down the road.

   

   

  5. Perm – do the plan and the alternative in all other instances - total rejection of capitalism fragments resistance

  J.K. Gibson-Graham, feminist economist, 1996, End of Capitalism

   

  One of our goals as Marxists has been

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  visible as a denial of diversity and change.

  6. Their anti-politics dooms the alt and causes authoritarian takeover

  Boggs 2k (CAROL BOGGS, PF POLITICAL SCIENCE – SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA, 00, THE END OF POLITICS, 250-1)

  But it is a very deceptive and misleading

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  antirationalism of Oakeshott’s Burkean muddling-through theories.

   

   

   

  No alternative to capitalism and capitalism is sustainable

  Zakaria, reporter for Newsweek, 2009

  (Fareed, 6-13-2009,“The capitalist manifesto,” )

   

  A few years from now, strange as

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  —like real estate—is another story.

   

  
  
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2AC - Democracy Assistance K

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• The alt’s rejection of liberal democracy results in mass violence.  The perm is a much more radical project that recognizes the strengths of democracy and actualizes ideals necessary for radical change.

   

  Mouffe 92 (Chantal, Professor of Politics and International Relations at University of Westminster, Dimensions of Radical Democracy: Pluralism, Citizenship, Community, p. 1-2, Sydnor) From ADI 2011.

   

  On the eve of the twenty-first

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  the renewal of the left-wing project.

   

  US support is key to the democratic transition.

  Hamid 2011 (shadi Director of Research,

  Christian Science Monitor January 26, 2011 Tunisia, Egypt, Arab World Need Bold U.S. Support for Democracy, Not Mixed Messages)

   

  Some might argue that this is not about

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  assistance, and moral support from Western governments.

   

  Modernization makes oppression inevitable.  Democratization is the best path.

  Mohamad G. Alkadry 02, is an Assistant Professor of Public Administration at West Virginia University. He received his doctorate from Florida Atlantic University., “RECITING COLONIAL SCRIPTS: COLONIALISM, GLOBALIZATION AND DEMOCRACY IN THE DECOLONIZED MIDDLE EAST”, Administrative Theory & Praxis Vol. 24, No. 4, 2002: 739–762, MCJ

   

  Democratization in the Middle East has been compromised

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  national independence moment to a moment of liberation.

   

   

  Democracy assistance promotes civil society.  Sustainable civil societies resist imperialist domination.

   

  Zunes 11 (Stephen, Professor of Politics at University of San Francisco, “Credit the Egyptian People for the Egyptian Revolution,” )

   

  Indeed, this revolution strikes a blow to

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  to have freer and more stable democratic systems.

  
  
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2AC - Politics - Generic Cards We've Read

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• Political capital is irrelevant – other factors outweigh and studies prove

  Dickinson, Professor of Political Science at Middlebury College, 2009

  (Matthew, Presidential Power, “Sotomayor, Obama and Presidential Power,” 5/26/09, http://blogs.middlebury.edu/presidentialpower/2009/05/26/sotamayor-obama-and-presidential-power/)

   

  What is of more interest to me,

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  the decision to present Sotomayor as his nominee.

   

   

  No link – no issue spillover and ideology trumps

  Edwards, Professof of Political Science at Texas, 2003

  (George C., Professor of Political Science at Texas A&M, “Riding High in the Polls: George W. Bush and Public Opinion,” ) JB

   

  One of the perennial questions about presidential-

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  deference to a widely supported chief executive.44

   

   

  Turn – winner’s win – policy success spills over and builds capital

  Marshall, Associate Professor of Political Science at Miami University, and Prins, Professor of Political Science at the University of Tennessee, 2011

  (Bryan W., Ph.D. from Michigan State, and Brandon C., Ph.D. from Michigan State and Howard H. Baker, Jr. Center for Public Policy, “Power or Posturing? Policy Availability and Congressional Influence on U.S. Presidential Decisions to Use Force,” Presidential Studies Quarterly 41:3 (September) 2011)

   

  Presidents rely heavily on Congress in converting their

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  managing political capital at home (Fordham 2002).

   

   

  Elections still too early to call

  Williams, The Hill, 9-12-11

  (Armstrong Williams, “Two factors that favor Romney against Obama”, )

   

   

  Nigeria is probably one of the most politically

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  a contest, and definitely among presidential hopefuls.

   

   

  No link and link turn- The public is unaware of democracy assistance and those that are aware like it

  MITCHELL AND PHILLIPS 2008 (LINCOLNA and DAVID PROJECT DIRECTORS:

  ENHANCING  DEMOCRACYASSISTANCE A RESEARCH PROJECT OF THE NATIONAL COMMITTEE ON AMERICAN FOREIGN POLICY)

   

  Most Americans have been unaware of the nature

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  making a deeper commitment through legislative support.’

   

   

  Democracy assistance programs have been historically popular

  MITCHELL AND PHILLIPS 2008 (LINCOLNA and DAVID PROJECT DIRECTORS:

  ENHANCING  DEMOCRACYASSISTANCE A RESEARCH PROJECT OF THE NATIONAL COMMITTEE ON AMERICAN FOREIGN POLICY)

   

  Democracy assistance has typically enjoyed broad bipartisan political

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  paper to  candidates in the 2008 election.  
  
  

   

  
  
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Critical Gender Yemen Decentralization

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