It’s Partisanshipwreck,
the thrilling disaster movie about a shipwreck and the poisonous effects of
partisanship!
In this exciting
action/drama/thriller/survival/disaster movie, a number of people take a cruise
on a luxury cruise liner, but unfortunately the ship encounters a freak squall
with high seas, and the ship goes down. Well, a handful of intrepid passengers
has the requisite skillset to survive the sinking of their ship, and they find
a remote desert island to dwell upon; however, in order to survive on the
island, they must work together, for each of them possesses but one necessary
skill of many to survive the island’s unforgiving environment. But because they
have met before briefly, and they know they support different political
parties, they instantly hate each other through the prejudice of their
hyper-partisanship; and due to the fact that they support different political
candidates and have differing preferred government policies, the more they know
about one another, the more their hatred grows with a deep and burning
loathing, so they refuse not only to work together, but even to speak to one
another. And in fact, they do not wait for the elements and predators to kill
them: with no justice system present to prevent it, they kill each other
over their political differences, rather than cooperate to survive.
And so they all
die tragically, due to their inflexible partisan bigotry: oh the humanity. (Or
does it count as tragic if they do it to themselves due to the completely
avoidable judgmental intolerance of partisanship? Hmm, it seems like maybe they
deserved their fate, doesn’t it? And by the way, this looks to me like why we
are so divided as a country, and why we can’t get anything accomplished in
government anymore: we won’t even talk to each other nor respect one another’s
points of view.)
Actually, at the
end it is revealed that two of the group decide to work together despite their
ferocious disagreement on political issues, and they survive separately from
the others, due solely to their cooperation. (A fantasy, I know; but at least
it’s inspirational, if unbelievable.)
And so, finally
there’s a movie for people who cannot stand the poison of partisanship and its
resultant bigotry and prejudiced hatred, where they can watch people get their
just desserts for being brainwashed into such unnecessary hatred of their
fellow man over things that everyone should have a natural human right to:
political opinions and expression (and, if they so choose, activism). And for a
change that’s nice to witness: the overly partisan people are harmed by their
own intolerance, rather than them harming everyone else with it.
It’s like Lord of the Flies, but this time around all the people
acting like children are adults.
(I’m very tired
of partisanship; can you tell? Our whole political landscape looks like a
partisanshipwreck, both publicly and governmentally, and it is
definitely not helpful.)
