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[Star Trek: AOS (Reboot)]

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[Jake Lloyd, Star Wars]

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(A Little Princess, the 1995 Alfonso Cuarón version)

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[Detective Constable Katie Harford (played by Georgina Campbell) on Broadchurch (season 3)]

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[Naruto, KakaSasu]

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[The Nosleep Podcast]

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...that explains politics and politicians. Their jobs, what people are doing in office now, the history, just anything to help educated me! I'm only smart enough to know that I don't know anything.

Feel free to post your own book searches here!

That's... a pretty substantial topic. Gosh. Also, what country are you in? The US?

Oh crap, yes. I forgot to mention that. See, typical American behavior. Sorry!

Hmmm. It's hard to think of books that are general, and good, and recent. I mean, stuff about the actual constitution and practice of American government is relatively easy - one thing I might recommend is "How Democratic Is The American Constitution" by Robert Dahl - but history & ideology is much harder and more complex. Aaaaaand also I'm very lazy so instead of recommending something I'm going to link a couple of essays. The first is a real classic of American political thought from 1964 called "The Paranoid Style In American Politics", and the second is a recent editorial piece from the Washington Post:

Paranoid Style
http://harpers.org/archive/1964/11/the-paranoid-style-in-american-politics/

Washington Post
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/lets-just-say-it-the-republicans-are-the-problem/2012/04/27/gIQAxCVUlT_story.html?utm_term=.64ca965597c8

The other thing I would recommend is going out and finding some stuff that's specifically about economic inequality and African-American experience in America and stuff on that level, because it's enormously illuminating.

DA appreciates the response.

where the story is not about their queerness? Specifically women, but I'll take any recs.

Summer Will Show by Sylvia Townsend Warner is about having your whole life unravel, and also about the French Revolution of 1848, but the female protagonist very definitely is in a queer relationship with another woman.

Moriarty, Spin State (bi protagonist)
Sulway, Rupetta (lesbian protagonist)
Jemisin, Inheritance Trilogy (bi and nonbinary characters)

Try Dark Money by Jane Mayer.

The Complete Idiot's Guide to US Government and Politics is a decent primer, as long as you're not looking for current events (I think it was published ~2007).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-EISWIY9bG8

Or more specifically "what's a good introduction to the subject for a dumbshit like me?"

I'm sorry, this is not a book. But The West Wing is a fucking incredible show about what it's like to be the president of the United States.

That's not a bad recommendation. It is very good at giving you a run through of sort of classic American institutional governance, and a feel for some of the horse-race stuff. As long as you keep in mind how idealistic it is, and how deeply rooted all of it is in Sorkin's centrist Camelot New Democrat worldview, and that said worldview is not shared by everyone nor necessarily the truth.

I haven't watched it but if it's anything like Thick Of It, Veep is probably worthwhile to watch (obviously very tonally different from West Wing) and In The Loop likewise.

On the other hand, definitely don't watch House of Cards. Well, not to understand American politics, anyway.

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