A mashup that showcases two of my biggest intellectual interests

[snowywolfowl]

What can I say? I've always enjoyed learning about periods in history where a country experiences dangerous mass insanity (like Rwanda, or the Khymer Rouge) and I also love dystopian art, literature and other media.  This video is just a perfect mash-up of those two interests.

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So why did I post this? Well lets just say sometimes art can hold up a

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[padawansguide]

Yeah, I never really wanted to actually BE in the dystopia though. Yikes. I don't even know... (ok, I do - this is what 8 years of fearmongering by Fox News and the right gets you - a lot of people who distrust the establishment.) Also I can't believe the GOP couldn't put up one candidate who was a viable alternative to Trump. Politics aside, literally everyone hates Cruz as a person and no one will work with him. Kasich has been a non-entity that was completely forgotten about during the intro to one of the debates. Carson is so sleepy and says weird provably false things (really, the pyramids were Joseph's granaries? And you stabbed someone. Uh-huh). Rubio sounds like a robot half the time - and looks unpresidential the other half. Christie is hated by his state (also Bridgegate). Fiorina did a hatchet job at HP and kept spouting the debunked Planned Parenthood baby murder stuff. And then there's JEB! who made gaffes left and right and was incapable of standing up to Trump

[snowywolfowl]

I had a weird moment a few months back during the Canadian federal election where I realized that in my daily thought experiment of "who would I vote for right now" I have NEVER had a moment where the answer was the Conservative or the Republican*. To be honest it floored me to realize that because that's going back all the way to the early 1990's. In all that time, through countless disappointments with other parties, major scandals, episodes of governmental incompetence and serious character flaws that side of the political aisle has NEVER been able to put anyone forward that I felt even "ok whatever" for. That is the sign of a dying party when a middle of the road swing voter like myself can't find a way in over 20 years to like them

[padawansguide]

"That is the sign of a dying party when a middle of the road swing voter like myself can't find a way in over 20 years to like them

[snowywolfowl]

Sorry to take so long. I'm in the crazy season at work right now but you make some great points (and the article is good too

[padawansguide]

No worries - things are busy here too.

"But since that seems to be practically Maoist in today's climate..." Yep - and that is the crux of the problem, really. The right has shifted SO far right that Nixon and Reagan look like liberals.