Brutally accurate. In playing “musical chairs,” it’s usually n-1 chairs for n players. One chair for n players is a quick road to wide-scale homelessness.
“Just offer a blanket dismissal of all Republicans as feckless dullards.” – How about just the 80% or so who refuse to self-police the lunatics, criminals and traitors?
For some earlier takes on this proposition, see E.M. Forster “The Machine Stops,” Keith Laumer “The Walls,” Ray Bradbury “The Veldt.” Or just look around at all the people lost in their tiny hand-held devices, with the glories of nature (and monstrosities of human fabrication and destruction) going unnoticed.
Even for Mr. Anderson, this is an extraordinary piece of art. Well worth putting on a poster and sticking on every red-state wall.