The narrative/metanarrative in which Lawrence Kuttner/Kal Penn kills himself for the satisfaction of marginal participation in White House quasi-politics allows him to stand for the Democratic electorate as a whole.
The experience of confusion and even betrayal that one's culture crush has sold his or her song to a commercial (most recently Joanna Newsom for Victoria's Secret), an experience which the progressive music fan encounters more than once on the route to majority, is simply practice for the practice of liberal voting. The speedy sequence of rationalization is the commitment to a lifetime of repetition, to the endless circuit of fantasy.
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