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11-15-2017, 09:47 PM
https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/culture/amelia-hamilton/2017/11/15/american-horror-story-finale-embodies-everything-it-says-wrong
By Amelia Hamilton | November 15, 2017 1:06 AM EST
The finale of American Horror Story: Cult aired on November 15. The episode "Great Again" (http://forums.previously.tv/topic/63469-s07e11-great-again/?do=getLastComment) focused on the cultish nature of politics and the way in which people can come to worship the symbols of American freedom without thinking about what they really mean. Of course, because this is a Ryan Murphy show, and he's a raging Hollywood liberal, these thoughts were delivered by a liberal lesbian ("a legit feminist icon") and a man who was, for much of the series, portrayed as a Trump supporter (a lunatic murderer/misogynist white nationalist cult leader).
After Ally Mayfair-Richards (Sarah Paulson) went undercover in Kai's (Evan Peters) cult for the FBI and brought it down from the inside, the year is 2018 and Kai is safely in prison (or not-so-safely, since he's still murdering people in there as he grows his cult following). Ally has found herself as something of a hero amongst American women for everything she's been through. The world also believes that Kai killed her wife, although she actually did that herself. She decides to use this as a springboard from which to run for Senate, which was Kai's original plan for himself.
In her campaign ad, she calls both major parties cults: "Now that I've escaped a cult, I'm running for Senate to help you escape yours," she says in the voiceover of her ad, "It's time we band together to bring down all cults-- the Democratic Party, the Republican Party, the entire two-party system. I know what it looks like when a powerful few control the many. On Capitol Hill, they may not want to listen to a woman who will take a sledgehammer to their antiquated system of oppression, but with your support, they're not gonna have a choice."
Kai wanted that Senate seat, and he's angry that a woman, especially the one who betrayed him, has a good shot at taking it. So, what's a psycho to do? Use his new cult to kill another guy in prison who looks vaguely similar, cut his face off, pretend it's him, and escape! Having done that, he crashes Ally's big debate, right after she's having her big moment talking about the "hell" the country has gone through after Trump's election and wearing the term "snowflake" as a badge of honor.
By Amelia Hamilton | November 15, 2017 1:06 AM EST
The finale of American Horror Story: Cult aired on November 15. The episode "Great Again" (http://forums.previously.tv/topic/63469-s07e11-great-again/?do=getLastComment) focused on the cultish nature of politics and the way in which people can come to worship the symbols of American freedom without thinking about what they really mean. Of course, because this is a Ryan Murphy show, and he's a raging Hollywood liberal, these thoughts were delivered by a liberal lesbian ("a legit feminist icon") and a man who was, for much of the series, portrayed as a Trump supporter (a lunatic murderer/misogynist white nationalist cult leader).
After Ally Mayfair-Richards (Sarah Paulson) went undercover in Kai's (Evan Peters) cult for the FBI and brought it down from the inside, the year is 2018 and Kai is safely in prison (or not-so-safely, since he's still murdering people in there as he grows his cult following). Ally has found herself as something of a hero amongst American women for everything she's been through. The world also believes that Kai killed her wife, although she actually did that herself. She decides to use this as a springboard from which to run for Senate, which was Kai's original plan for himself.
In her campaign ad, she calls both major parties cults: "Now that I've escaped a cult, I'm running for Senate to help you escape yours," she says in the voiceover of her ad, "It's time we band together to bring down all cults-- the Democratic Party, the Republican Party, the entire two-party system. I know what it looks like when a powerful few control the many. On Capitol Hill, they may not want to listen to a woman who will take a sledgehammer to their antiquated system of oppression, but with your support, they're not gonna have a choice."
Kai wanted that Senate seat, and he's angry that a woman, especially the one who betrayed him, has a good shot at taking it. So, what's a psycho to do? Use his new cult to kill another guy in prison who looks vaguely similar, cut his face off, pretend it's him, and escape! Having done that, he crashes Ally's big debate, right after she's having her big moment talking about the "hell" the country has gone through after Trump's election and wearing the term "snowflake" as a badge of honor.