In the universe of Star Trek, the Kobayashi Maru is a test taken by cadets at Starfleet command. It is presented as a “no win” scenario in which there are only two possible courses of action:
Rescue the crew of a damaged ship, but violate a treaty to do so and provoke a battle (in which you are outgunned and cannot win) with an alien race.
Leave the ship alone, thus avoiding the battle but guaranteeing the certain deaths of everyone on board.
This campaign season, the GOP ended up in their own Kobayashi Maru scenario, stemming purely from the nature of the beast as it were.
The GOP’s ‘Kobayashi Maru’ Problem
Grover Norquist: Obama Won By Calling Romney ‘A Poopy Head’: On today’s episode of “Why Politics Is Like Junior High”….
A national party no more: The GOP is becoming the party of angry White racists, which is why the South is becoming the party’s heartland.
How Fox News Created a New Culture of Idiots: The truth can be so inconvenient and uncomfortable; it’s SO much easier when you can just let Right-wing ideologues tell you what to believe.
How the GOP’s War on Voting Backfired: Welcome to the Law of Unintended Consequences.
Calls for the GOP to Break Out of Its “Media Cocoon”: When you live in an echo chamber, it’s difficult not to lose touch with reality.
Congressional Republicans’ ‘Compromise’: Everyone Should Accept Romney Tax Plan: Didn’t Mitt Romney LOSE the election? Perhaps someone should get a dictionary and look up the definition of “compromise.”
Pompous Assumptions of a Tea Party Senator: Voters are Ignorant, Colleagues Need Tutoring: If only people would just listen and vote the “right” way….
Florida’s GOP Secretary Of State Has No Regrets, Won’t Say He’s Sorry For Massive Voting Lines: Because anything that makes it harder for minorities and the poor to vote is OK by the GOP. If you loved voter suppression in 2012, you’re going to LOVE 2014 and 2016.
The You’re-on-Your-Own Society: It would seem that the social contract survived this election…but will it survive over the long term?
