I watched The Manchurian Candidate the other day. The original not the remake. It’s surreal to me that “brainwashing” has become real in the US. Chuds watch untold hours of rightwing news propaganda like Fox News plus similar podcasts and Youtube vids. They broke their brains. They no longer care what’s real or what’s true. Buckley was snide, rude, and could be a liar but at least he would debate issues.
Unfortunately I think a lot of liberals are like Axelrod and they have their own harsh and limiting blinders. They cannot accept that ~1/3rd of the electorate will be with Trump through hell or high water. The GOP can’t be reasoned with and debating them is idoicy. In fact - it’s toxic to do so because it normalizes awfulness. The chus exist in a world where they reject any information, fact, data, number that contradicts their cherished nonsense or propaganda.
Trivia about the book that is impossible to see in the movie…
The book’s title refers not to the brainwashed assassin Raymond Shaw, but to Senator Johnny Iselin, who is clearly a caricature of the anti-Communist demagogue of the early 1950s, Senator Joseph R. McCarthy. The basic premise of the story is that Iselin’s achievement of nomination to national office was the direct result of a Communist plot hatched in Manchuria, and Iselin is thus the “Manchurian Candidate.”
I really need to rewatch the original again one of these days.
There is something very dark that “every accusation is a confession” goes all the way back to the Korean War, which in many ways defined the entire Cold War
I watched The Manchurian Candidate the other day. The original not the remake. It’s surreal to me that “brainwashing” has become real in the US. Chuds watch untold hours of rightwing news propaganda like Fox News plus similar podcasts and Youtube vids. They broke their brains. They no longer care what’s real or what’s true. Buckley was snide, rude, and could be a liar but at least he would debate issues.
Unfortunately I think a lot of liberals are like Axelrod and they have their own harsh and limiting blinders. They cannot accept that ~1/3rd of the electorate will be with Trump through hell or high water. The GOP can’t be reasoned with and debating them is idoicy. In fact - it’s toxic to do so because it normalizes awfulness. The chus exist in a world where they reject any information, fact, data, number that contradicts their cherished nonsense or propaganda.
Trivia about the book that is impossible to see in the movie…
I really need to rewatch the original again one of these days.
There is something very dark that “every accusation is a confession” goes all the way back to the Korean War, which in many ways defined the entire Cold War