Political Theatre category archive
Credit Where Credit is Undue 0
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Gutting Postal 0
Sam discusses Republican efforts to undermine the U. S. Post Office.
Behind that Curtain 0
In The Roanoke Times, James Ballou looks behind the smokescreen of Republican rhetoric to discern the essence of today’s Republican Party.
A nugget:
Leaving the Polity Agogue 0
Eli Whitney reminds us that, of all things the Founders feared, the demagogue was what they feared the most. A snippet:
They believed uniformly that some men, though elected by the people, would be temperamentally incapable of serving the public interest under the Constitution. Therefore, they offered Congress the remedy of impeachment and removal from office.
Follow the link for more. It’s worth the three minutes it will take to read.
Misdirection Plays, All the News that Fits Dept. 0
David looks back at a year of Foxy shadiness.
Russian Impulses, Putin on the Ritz Dept. 0
In The Roanoke Times, Nancy Liebrecht calls out the subservient toady for his groveling obsequiousness.
(Misplet wrod correxed.)
The Credulous 0
At Psychology Today Blogs, Bobby Azarian probes the Evangelical “Christians” willingness to swallow Donald Trump’s particular type of hogwash, despite the hog’s being in plain sight. It’s an interesting read.
Here is a snippet (emphasis added):
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For Christian fundamentalists, being taught to suppress critical thinking begins at a very early age. It is the combination of the brain’s vulnerability to believing unsupported facts and aggressive indoctrination that create the perfect storm for gullibility. Due to the brain’s neuroplasticity, or ability to be sculpted by lived experiences, evangelicals literally become hardwired to believe far-fetched statements.
Lies and Lying Liars 0
David considers the dynamics of pathological liars and his tactic for dealing with them.
Unbalanced Balance 0
In a fascinating column, David Leonhardt explores his reaction to another writer’s article about “centrist bias.” I commend it to your attention.
Here’s a bit (emphasis added):
In doing so, however, they often make an honest mistake: They equate balance with the midpoint between the two parties’ ideologies. . . .
But that’s not the only problem. There’s also the possibility that both political parties have been wrong about something and that the solution, rather than being roughly halfway between their answers, is different from what either has been proposing.
Methinks Leonhardt is onto something here.
The type of blind loyalty to centrism as he describes it does not admit the possibility that either (or both) polar position(s) may be just wrong, wrong, wrong and limits discourse to the narrow swath of landscape visible through the Overton Window.
