Gerald Talbott

While politics is theater, the effects of political theater on the audience is very real. Women going on sex strikes against men, members of marginalized communities lashing out against other members of marginalized communities, heightened fear and hatred of voters from the “other” party… Manufactured division that feeds the ruling class and allows them to maintain their power. We are not one another’s enemy. We don’t wage war. We don’t print money. We don’t affect policy or create laws. We don’t control institutions. We don’t own the media. We don’t allocate resources. We do not currently hold the power to effectively change the material conditions of one another’s lives. But we could, if we stopped allowing ourselves to be so utterly manipulated by the show and stood in solidarity with one another against our common enemy: the ruling class who have always oppressed the people and will continue to, until we stop them together.