Thursday, July 16, 2009
Politics as Theatre
Mother Jones magazine examines the superficiality of liberal Americans in the Sotomayor hearings. Wooed by the appearance of diversity that mesmerizes Obama supporters, Sotomayor cheerleaders neglect her hard line, right-wing stance against justice. As the next member of the US Supreme Court, this fatal flaw is hardly something to cheer about, unless one is a mindless consumer of politics as theatre.
