Does it get any more #Resistance-lib-Hunger-Games-ruling-elite-cosplaying-benevolent-rulers-while-Rome-burns (sorry for the mixed cultural references) than a Hillary Clinton musical reliving the commie glory days of empowered feminist women rescuing America from its horrendous patriarchy?
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Via CBS News (emphasis added):
“I knew hardly anything about the suffragists," said Shaina Taub, the show's star and writer. "I think I knew basic information about Susan B. Anthony. I heard of Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and vaguely knew there was a women's rights convention in the 19th century that kind of kicked it off. And that was it.”
The musical picks up the story in 1913, the year thousands of suffragists staged the first-ever big political march on Washington, many wearing white, led by a woman on a white horse…
"These rights were not inevitable; every generation has to fight to protect these rights and freedoms again and again and again," Taub said….
As ambassadors for the show's message, Nobel Prize-winner Malala Yousafzai (who was shot in the head after advocating for girls' education in Pakistan) and Hillary Clinton (who came so close to being elected the first woman President of the United States) were named producers…
What looked like a genuine sisterhood developed over a month of "Suffs" rehearsals. Practically everybody involved in the show is female…
By the time the cast and orchestra were rehearsing together, they all seemed to be having a rollicking good time. Clinton herself was fired up: "I'm going to go out marching to do something!" she exclaimed. "I cannot tell you, it's such a joy. It's going to change history."
As one might imagine, during the MSNBC infomercial for the production disguised as a news segment, it took about twenty seconds for abortion rights to crop up, complete with the requisite references to “The Handmaid's Tale” revealing for certain what this production actually is: a campaign infomercial set to music.
Of course, the cast is ahistorically replete with black women, even though it’s established historical fact that the suffragettes were entirely white women who didn’t want anything to do with black people.
But let’s not let historical accuracy interfere with some good progressive agitprop.
It seems clear these people don’t understand how increasingly narrow of a slice of the population the kind of audience that laps this propaganda up actually is.Inside the Beltway, “Suffs” was guaranteed to be a smash hit before the first line was written, based solely on the subject matter.
Beyond the Hunger Games capital walls, it’s going to flop no matter how many fawning segments MSNBC runs because people don’t like histrionic revisionist lectures about Equity™ when they can’t feed their families or put gas in their cars.
On a related note to this whole “women as the saviors of democracy” trope, my grandfather, bless his heart, developed some years ago the tradition of strategically placing copies of the book “Most Evil Women in History” in various locations such as postal packages, the glovebox, etc. where a well-meaning liberal family member of mine who shall remain nameless — the kind of person who, when he once told him/her that a church burned down (apparently accidentally) in Topeka, asked reflexively: “What is a black church?” because that’s just where the mind goes on Social Justice™ — after this individual’s declaration that women are inherently morally superior in positions of power and authority than men.
