Friday, March 5, 2021

The real reason for the Dr. Seuss freakout

 https://edition.cnn.com/2021/03/02/opinions/gops-bogus-claims-of-cancel-culture-seuss-filipovic/index.html

But the American right has become the all-out party of gender and racial grievance, and they are hyper focused on two things: maintaining power, and not actually being held accountable for governing.
That's why they obsess over culture war stories like Dr. Seuss: There's no legislative solution (unless they want to nationalize the children's book industry), so there's no way for the Republican Party to have failed to deliver on a promise; there's only finger-pointing at perceived enemies (liberals, wokes, Democrats), which rallies the troops. What are they being rallied for? They're not quite sure -- but they know who they're against.
 
And conservatives think the top story is Dr. Seuss? If that's where we all turn our attention, how convenient for them.

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