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first, go watch this.


ASSIGNMENT: Write a short paragraph comparing the events of the commercial to the 2004 U.S. Presidential election. Hints:

1. Notice the twitchy, disoriented candidate running for re-election who has to be fed lines. You may wish to pick a substance that the fictional candidate's head is made from and construct an epithet applying to his real-life counterpart.

2. Notice the campaign promises that sound appealing, but in the end will be bad for all of us.

3. In the ad, the only enemy of McDonaldland who manages to penetrate the nation's borders escapes unpunished. Could this observation serve your allegorical piece?

4. Note that the clear instance of electoral fraud is never rectified, and in fact the ballots are counted by a member of McCheese's own staff.

5. For a real slam-bang ending, express doubt as to which election is more obviously a farcical fiction designed to promote corporate interests.


if you like that, you can read the entire article here. and if you like that, there's a whole magazine full of shit like that.