Political Theatre category archive
Blinders 0
Farhad Manjoo uses the spread of the coronavirus–more precisely, the spread of misinformation and hysteria and outright falsehoods about the coronavirus–to highlight a larger problem: the failure to pay attention to and heed what science and scientists have to say about real things happening in the real world.
Here’s a bit (emphasis added):
Our collective inability to communicate about science has thoroughly perverted our politics. Because science has become so deeply intertwined with partisan dogma, people’s very conception of scientific expertise has been hijacked by tribal reflex. Today, a lot of people seem to determine how much they trust scientists based on their political ideas, which is backward and bizarre.
Down on the (Animal) Farm 0
The writer of a letter to the editor of The Roanoke Times has read his Orwell.
And the Moral of the Story Is . . . . 0
PoliticalProf reminds us that
Follow the link to read why he said that.
It Takes Two To Tango 0
As Atrios points out, you can’t be bipartisan by yourself.
A Modest Proposal 0
At AL.com, Alabama Republican John Meredith has a suggestion for the Republican Party:
Follow the link for his reasoning.
Dis Coarse Discourse, Tilting at the Bernie Windmill Dept. 0
I am not a fan of Bernie Sanders.
I admit that this is a purely personal reaction and concede that it is fed partly by the obnoxious behavior of a segment of his acolytes, the “Bernie Bros,” rather than one based on rational analyses of positions on issues before the polity.
Nevertheless, I must say that much of the opposition to his candidacy amongst what was called, when I was a young ‘un, “the Establishment” (as witness the meltdown by Chris Matthews that has been much in the news) is based on a mythical Bernie construct little related to the reality of his positions on the issues or to his record.
Martin Longman, in considering a recent column by David Brooks (aka, the man who is always wrong), offers an excellent analysis of said mythical Bernie construct.
I commend it to your attention.
Afterthought:
I don’t base my vote on whether I find someone likable (or whether I’d like to have a beer with him or her, for Pete’s sake).
And you shouldn’t either.
. . . To an Epidemic of Stupid 0
Leonard Pitts, Jr., offers a eulogy for competence. A snippet:
Follow the link for the recap.
Chartering a Course for Disaster 0
Sam discusses Betsy DeVos’s commitment to charter schools and the smokescreen of sophistry surrounding charter school privatization scam.
The Epidemiologist 0
Chris Koski analyzes the Trump Administration’s response to the coronavirus and isolates its single guiding priniciple; follow the link to see how he frames his case:
Via PoliticalProf.