Political Theatre category archive
Secret(ive) Police 0
Earlier this week I saw a report asserting that the Trump administration was, for all intents and purposes, deploying a force of what the commentator referred to as “brown shirts” in Portland, Oregon.
I chose to view it with several grains of salt, thinking it might be a little over the top.
I’m beginning to think that perhaps I dismissed it too cavalierly.
The Missing Link 0
Kyle Whitmire spots what’s missing (emphasis added):
The president can’t. Neither can officials who support him, not our elected leaders here in Alabama nor any in other states.
Reopening the economy is a goal. Not a plan.
Reopening schools is a goal. Not a plan.
Everyone shares these goals. Who doesn’t want to reopen the economy? Who doesn’t want to reopen schools? But only some understand there are steps we must take to reach them.
The Myth of the Middle 2
Ed at Gin and Tacos argues that our notion that the best course of action lies somewhere in the political middle of the road is a nosebag of hooey.
Afterthought:
That might have been true before the Republican Party, under Richard Nixon’s loathsome Southern Strategy, devolved from the party of Ev Dirksen and Nelson Rockefeller to the party of Tom Cotton and Louie Gohmert. (And if you don’t know who Ev Dirksen and Nelson Rockefeller were, you will find a wealth of information, some of it accurate, on the inner tubes.)
(Lack-)Wits Gathering Wool(ery) (Updated) 0
We are a society of stupid, and the stupid, it burns. It burns all of us.
Image via The Bob Cesca Show Blog.
Afterthought:
I was in a shop recently and said to the clerk, after a bit of banter, “I never thought I’d live to see the end of the American dream.”
But I have, and America did it to itself.
I am not sanguine.
Addendum:
Button, Button, Who’s Pushing the Buttons? 0
David warns those who would be rid of the Trumpler not to let Trump and the Trumpettes push their buttons.
Facebook Frolics, Jerks and Knees Dept. 0
In a thoughtful and well-reasoned editorial, my local rag unloaded on a local frolicker, one who is on a school board and has a political presence and who habitually spreads tommyrot and bilge.
Here’s a telling snippet from their editorial (emphasis added):
I commend the entire piece to your attention.
Path to Pariah 0
Seth takes stock of where we are in these viral times.
