#OTD January 30, 1661
Oliver Cromwell is ritually executed more than two years after his death. Even in absence, symbols are punished, because the act is not about justice, but warning the living.
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Politics Turned 'Trash TV': The Global Spectacle of Governance 📺🎭
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The Left’s Shameful Hypocrisy in the Government Shutdown: Anti-Worker Politics Disguised as Progressivism
The current government shutdown has exposed something deeply disturbing about the state of so-called progressivism in America. As the federal government teeters on the brink of chaos, there are voices, voices that claim to be on the left, calling for the shutdown to continue. They present it as some kind of moral or political strategy, a way to "punish" the administration or make a political statement. But what they fail—or refuse—to acknowledge is the human cost of this so-called […]Every government shutdown follows the same script:
Day 1: Blame the other party
Day 10: Threaten to eliminate the filibuster
Day 20: More blame
Day 30: Still threatening the filibuster
Day 40: Suddenly reach a deal, filibuster intact
It's political theater. We've seen this show before.