Political Theatre category archive
Unchecked and Unbalanced 0
Two North Carolina state senators are–er–concerned about the direction of the North Carolina Republican Party. Here’s a bit of what they have to say:
Follow the link for their reasoning and, remember, what they have to say is apparent in a number of other states too.
It’s Bubblelicious! 0
Psychology professor Gail K. Sahar explores some of the reasons for increasing political polarization in dis coarse discourse. I recommend her article as a worthwhile read in these fractious times. Here’s a bit:
Chaos Agents, One More Time 0
Michael in Norfolk points out that both sides don’t.
Republican Thought Police 0
Afterthought:
Many years ago, when I was a young ‘un just a couple of years into my first real job (as opposed to summer jobs), my then girl friend and I had occasion to visit an apartment occupied by two young men.
I remember that she was rather taken aback when she saw that there was only one bed in the apartment.
But, really, they were just being who they were, and they were harming nobody.
Who does it harm to just let let persons be who they are in the privacy of their own homes?
As an aside, I can attest that no marriage of mine has ever been harmed by anything that happened in a same sex bedroom.
Chaos Agents 0
Robert Reich, not one given to wild ravings, fears that there is method in the madness. Here’s how he opens his article; follow the link for his reasoning.
Reagan is still revered, especially by Republicans, but his negative view of government has morphed into an authoritarian fervor within the Republican Party.
And that fervor has become the basis of a strategy — led by Trump — for seeking to persuade the rest of America that the nation is ungovernable as a democracy and therefore in need of an authoritarian strongman.
Look in the Mirror 0
At the Portland Press-Herald, Victoria Hugo-Vidal muses on mistrust of government, then echoes the famous line uttered by Walt Kelly’s Pogo: “We have met the enemy and he is us.”
A snippet:
The idea that government is a bad, scary, untouchable thing is a self-fulfilling prophecy.
Limits of Limits 0
Some persons seem to think that limiting the terms of elected officials will somehow fix things. (Indeed, my local rag has had several such letters in the past week.)
I doubt it.
Persons who vote for one fool will quite happily vote for the next fool.
A better solution is not to vote for fools, not to live in a bubble, not to tell yourself that there’s no differences between candidates or parties when there quite plainly is, to see through lies, to separate reason from emotion–oh, well, you know enough to add to the list.
Yet, in a longer post about the foolishness of the term limits myth, Atrios makes a point that I have not seen articulated previously mentioned before:
The Art of the Con 0
At the Las Vegas Sun, Mike Barrett points out that Lincoln was right.
The Disinformation Superhighway 0
Don’t believe that “digital assistant.”
Aside:
Personally, I wouldn’t invite a spybot (or a vehicle for spybots) into my house on a bet.
But that’s just me.
A Tune for the Times 0
Mangy points out that one thing is not like the other thing.
The Lake Effect 0
The Arizona Republic’s E. J. Montini makes a case that there a precedent for Kari Lake in Arizona politics. A snippet:
Follow the link for his reasoning.
Dis Coarse Discourse 0
At the Hartford Courant, Thomas Congelolsi argues that the Republican Party behaves like a toddler in a tantrum.
Methinks he makes a pretty good case.
