A brief whiff of fresh air as we follow the Vinick campaign around the trail for a while. However, as always there is such little daylight between Democrat and Republican positions on... well damn near everything, the staffs and their approach to issues people care about could just be interchangeable!!
Midway through I completely fail at being profound off the cuff, and having thought through my gibbering while producing this episode, I just want to say briefly: consuming media uncritically is the quick way to get hegemonized.
BSG is literally ABOUT samsara, the great wheel, and the iterative nature of conflict, violence and death. The West Wing applies this theme not to peoples or tribes but to ideology, particularly the American political "spectrum". Which when viewed from any further away from arm's length is just a bright red band of conservative authoritarianism steeped in darker red blood.
The song this week is Dan Deacon.
