Political Theatre category archive
Gutting Out the Vote 0
Leonard Pitts, Jr., tells one voter’s story–a voter who waited in line for six hours to vote in a primary–then looks at the larger picture of the voter fraud fraud. Here’s a bit:
More at the link.
(Broken link fixed.)
Health Care in a Health Scare 0
David discusses the financial implications facing individuals as regards coronavirus testing and treatment in our predatory for profit health care system.
Misdirection Play, “Electability” Dept. 0
Writing at Psychology Today Blogs, Dylan Selterman suggests that arguments about which candidate for elected office may be more “electable” are, at best, pointless musings on the undefinable and, at worst, Sunday-go-to-meeting clothes for prejudice and bigotry.
Methinks his piece is worth a read. After all, many persons considered our current pestilen to have been “unelectable” . . . .
Here’s a snippet:
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.
