Category: politics
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False, false equivalencies
Note: in researching the source of this meme, I found it on a Reddit thread dated nine months ago. However, I saw it for the first time today. I saw this image on my Facebook feed today, and was alarmed. For context: watching white people being racist in the various infuriating and tragic videos that […]
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The Solitude of Clinton
The flip side of my aversion to Trump and the way he blusters through life, seemingly without comprehension or consequence, is my identification with Hillary Clinton. It’s quite a neat flip side. Of all the outlandish political plot points that have littered fiction through the years, none seems as contrived and orchestrated as the Clinton […]
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The Parade of Trumps
I won’t try to convince you that this is not a political post. In some ways, it is. In fact, it’s a desperate political post. Not desperate in the sense that I’m beside myself with fear that The Donald will become The Commander in Chief. Desperate in the sense that I have found no way […]
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Feel the Other Burn
I have a fairly well-informed group of friends, if I must generalize. But listening or reading to many of their opinions regarding the current presidential race is exhausting. Part of it is me, I admit. It’s been rather a foregone conclusion in my mind for the past decade that Hillary Clinton is exactly the person […]