politics

The Real Politics of the Irresistible Ending

This article contains Irresistible spoilers. This isn’t right. When Gary, a political strategist played with constant anxiety by Steve Carell, enters the civics center of Deerlarken, everyone is smiling. Stranger still, both camps separated by a political divide he engineered are satisfied with the results of their election. This isn’t how politics is supposed to work. Not in America! Yet this is the Twilight Zone reality Gary finds himself in during the finale of Jon Stewart’s Irresistible. Despite the fact Gary’s DNC internal polling shows there has been no voting conducted on election day, the town is publicly announcing that…
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American Heretics: The Politics of the Gospel

American Heretics: The Politics of the Gospel takes audiences into the buckle of Bible belt where a group of defiant Oklahomans are rising up to challenge deeply rooted fundamentalist Christian doctrine. Labeled as ?heretics? for their beliefs and actions, they refuse to wield their faith as a sword sharpened by literal interpretations of the Bible. Especially those interpretations that continue to justify nationalism and hack away at landmark civil rights protections for women, minorities, immigrants, and the LGBTQ communities. These American Heretics are still interested in saving you from hell, but it?s the earthly one, where poverty, discrimination and nationalism…
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