Political Theatre category archive
How Low Can Trump Go? 0
Why, all the way to debasement, of course.
Abdicating the Common Good 0
There’s an excellent and entertaining science fiction book series called “Traders Tales” set in a future in which corporations own everything, including planets. (You can find the audio books at Scribl.)
It starts when the narrator’s mother, a college professor employed by the corporation that owns her planet, dies in an accident. As he no longer has a tie the planet, the owning corporation tells him he has to leave, thus starting his journey through space and the experiences that form the series. Refreshingly, the story focuses on day-to-day life aboard a space freighter, not on Star Wars-like war and adventure.
It is not a dystopian tale, as were Brave New World or 1984, but I always found premise to be creepy. Under corporate ownership, as under Republican governance, there is no such thing as the common good; there is only mammon.
Will Bunch suggests those days may be closer than you think.
“Sit Down and Shut Up” 0
The Portland Press-Herald’s Bill Nemitz comments on the gyrations of one Maine school district to justify banning students from participating in any protest against school shootings. A snippet:
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My guess is those kids would not consider gun violence political at all. To them, and to their still-grieving families and friends, it’s literally a matter of life or gruesome death.
Yet here we have Superintendent Rebar, following a hastily called meeting with the SAD 13 school board on Tuesday, twisting and torturing everything from the First Amendment to basic logic.
Bot Nut 0
Reg Henry waxes poetic.
“There Are Lies, Damned Lies, and Then There’s the Trump Administration” 0
Warning: Language, and lots of it.
Democracy Inaction 0
TPM reports that, in a new twist on their gut-out-the-vote efforts, Republican governors have decided that no elections are better than some elections.
Decoding de Code 0
At Psychology Today Blogs, Clifford Lazarus offers a primer on understanding what narcissists are really thinking when the mouth bland niceties.
Not that that could be at all helpful in understanding certain politicians or anything like that there good heavens gosh golly gee no.