Mirror, Mirror on the Wall, Who’s the Biggest Threat of All?’
17th April 2022
It is amazing. Certain politically pregnant phrases are repeated nearly verbatim, over and over by a multitude of pundits, politicians, news anchors, podcasters, talk show hosts, etc. It’s as if they’re all reading from the same script. (They are.) The worst of these is the declaration of a “threat to our democracy.” It’s as if this is the definitive, final, word. Except that they all must say it, just in case it didn’t quite take in first time. Just in case we didn’t hear it. Just in case someone, aghast, challenged the idea of it, declared it not just unoriginal, but also just plain wrong.
Challenge is an ugly thing. It is “a threat to our democracy!”