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fandomsecrets2013-06-09 03:36 pm
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(Anonymous) 2013-06-09 08:59 pm (UTC)(link)Uh...you do realize proving political necessity is basically the entire premise of how the American government operates, and that's what the characters are completely and unequivocally constrained by, right? They can't pass a damn thing without convincing a majority of both houses of Congress that it would help them get re-elected. You're bitching about politics dominating a show about politics!
It IS a show about American politics, American politics is dominated by white men, and American politics is democratic, meaning the only way - and I mean the one single ONLY way that has ever worked for every single civil rights movement in America since the Civil War - to affect change in American politics and the American government and America in general to help women and minorities IS for those women and minorities to convince white men of their importance and political necessity.
It could have been done better and portrayed as more problematic - Sorkin was waaaay too "yay the political system is totes awesome!!" - but at the end of the day, the show is about national politics in a nationally-elected political office, not NBC's Primetime Guide to Social Issues, and everything you just bitched about is, unfortunately, exactly what politics is.
The moderateness, OTOH, I think is Sorkin's (or NBC's) way of trying to make sure the show didn't fall into a niche following, given how moderate the general American population (and TV viewing audience) is. In fact, I'm still a bit baffled how the show's ratings managed to get so high given how much to the left it was (which is not even that far to the left at all).