“That’s Democracy!” (a short film about you and me, America)

I don’t know what to think of this. It starts out feeling pretty cheap and emotionally manipulative, but I think it’s ultimately a sort of spot-on indictment of how we all—as Americans, left, right, and center—deeply buy into the Murder Business. 

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Spider Jerusalem on Democracy

(that’s Spider Jerusalem on democracy, courtesy of the unhappily prescient Transmetropolitanalthough I still tend to disagree with this distinguished caricature of Hunter S. Thompson)