What the fuck level of cult of personality even is this? They're writing fan fic about their fucking overlords. What the fuck I cannot emphasize enough what the fuck?
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Unironically this is the end result of Hamilton and West Wing and hell even fucking School House Rock (for all the 30 something US Americans). This is real "end of history" thinking. Democracy is the final form, this is it, the problem is that the wrong people keep getting voted in, bad people, because "oh Republicans are stupid" or "oh Russia Boris what time is it in Moscow" or "oh leftists let Trump win". We just need real people of character to get in there and do politics and reach across the aisle and just have heart to heart talks with fascists and get things done FOR AMERICA because America is perfect! We just keep electing the wrong people but don't worry we'll fix it
-Random serf, 1438
Unironically, in 1916 you would still have peasants saying "if only the tsar knew how the lords were treating us, then he could put a stop to it!" Americans have the same relationship to the US Constitution
The way some muricans worship that shit is just absolutely bizarre lmao
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_civil_religion
Indeed.
It's never the kings fault, it's that vile vizier..or the eunuchs,
Schoolhouse Rock was from 1973. I'm not sure how old 30 somethings are where you live
eh, i'm in my 30s and they still showed it when i was in elementary school
feels like the sort of thing that doesn't really need too much updating since it's meant to teach literal children the absolute basics
Damn, they kept it up that long? I'm Canadian so maybe that's why, but it for sure aired on our TV in the 70s cause my dad and uncles are very familiar and have various long running verbal memes about it and this was in the 3 channel days so there was no getting American stations. Probably why it didn't keep airing here, but now that I think about it, it's weird we had it at all.
they did! wheeled out the tv cart and everything.
that does make this all a lot stranger. i never even entertained the thought that it would be played as a regular program on tv, let alone in a different country with an entirely different system of governance. it always had such "made for a specific audience to watch on tape" vibes.
but yeah i wish i knew people younger than me who grew up in the same area, i'd be curious when/if it stopped being a thing.
also i just checked the wiki and apparently it ran for 7 seasons. the only parts i recognize are apparently from the third season: "To coincide with the upcoming United States Bicentennial, a third season, America Rock, airing in 1975 and 1976, had music videos covering the structure of the United States government (such as "I'm Just a Bill") along with important moments in American history (examples include "The Preamble" and "Mother Necessity")." i genuinely thought it was a one-shot special or smth, like a PSA. at least now its reach makes a little more sense? still fucking weird though
I thought it was these a series of shorts used to eat up children's air time back when advertising to children wasn't as allowed
yup that's correct; wiki says it was designed to be put between programs during saturday morning cartoons
i had just never encountered it on the air, only in vhs format. apparently they put more of this shit in 2009(!!!) but it was a reunion style thing.
Dang that old. They were still having us watch it when I was in elementary school
"Mr. President, a second Sorkin Brain has hit the liberal psyche."
School hourse rock on language and maths; awesome, pure, wonderful
School house rock on politics; ansolute zero pure evil doctrinal propaganda trhat has done irrepairable harm to the world.
Elbow room, anyone?
Oh shit I fuckin forgot about that one. Wow. That was real egregious in hindsight. Damn