She doesn't understand anything about how government expenditures work and she wants to make radical changes in them. If she had any real sense, she would try to learn as much as she can before opens her trap ("Oh, look, did you know that there are secret tunnels under the Capitol?!"). Instead, she believes not only that she knows best, but that she can blow past all of the vested interests in the current system and get her ideas enacted.
She is a sincere naively arrogant ditz. That is different from being an idiot, but even more dangerous in some ways. Here is an excellent piece from Vox that reviews one of the finest Star Trek episodes and why its initial writer, Harlan Ellison, hated it. As the reviewer says, the question of which ending feels better serves as a litmus test for fans of the show. And it serves as a political litmus test as well. Which Kirk are you, the one that allows Edith Keeler to die or the one that tries to save her? Star Trek fans will recognize the issue. AOC is currently bidding to become Edith Keeler.
Harlan Ellison wrote Star Trek’s greatest episode. He hated it.
The famously cantankerous science-fiction legend died this week. The story of “City on the Edge of Forever” represents his career in miniature.
By Keith Phipps Jun 29, 2018, 12:40pm PDT
vox.com
[BTW, this is a fine review that Star Trek, Harlan Ellison and science fiction fans in particular will enjoy reading. Well, maybe those three things are actually all one thing.] |
