“You can track elections by who was playing that president on 'SNL' at that time. There's the theory that the more likable or charismatic impression would help get the president elected.” HelpingPresidentTheoryElectionTrackImpressionCharismaticSnl Author:Jordan Peele
“The theory is that election to Congress is tantamount to being dispatched to Washington on a looting raid for the enrichment of your state or district, and no other ethic need inhibit the feeding frenzy.” NeedsStatesTheoryEthicsElectionCongressFeedingFrenzyEnrichmentLooting Author:George Will
“One of the best predictors of policy around is Thomas Ferguson's investment theory of politics, as he calls it - very outstanding political economist - which essentially - I mean, to say it in a sentence, he describes elections as occasions in which groups of investors coalesce and invest to control the state.” MeanStatesPoliticalGroupsPolicyTheoryElectionInvestmentSentencesOccasionsInvestorsEconomistOutstandingFerguson Author:Noam Chomsky
“There's sort of a theory that's going around in the China-watching community about a perfect storm coming up with the 2008 Olympics, a U.S. election and a Taiwanese election, some sort of mutually reinforcing explosion and crisis.” CommunityPerfectTheoryElectionCrisisChinaStormOlympicsExplosionsPerfect StormStorms Coming Author:Bonnie Blair
“The Mars Rover sent back stunning photos [last week] indicating the past presence of water. The pictures show tiny splotches of blue on the Red Planet. The other theory is that the satellite dish on the rover accidentally picked up CNN's election coverage.” ShowsLastsPastWaterWeekPlanetsTheoryRedElectionBlueTinyDishesMarsCoverageStunningSatellitesCnn Author:Argus Hamilton
“I was watching Discovery Channel the other day, and you know that they have come up with a new theory about how dinosaurs was wiped out? It was a midturn election.” KnowsTheoryDiscoveryElectionCome UpDinosaurs Author:Jay Leno
“Under the present dispensation, the great majority of factories are little despotisms, benevolent in some cases, malevolent in others. Even where benevolence prevails, passive obedience is demanded by the workers, who are ruled by overseers, not of their own election, but appointed from above. In theory they may be the subjects of a democratic state; but in practice they spend the whole of their working lives as the subjects of a petty tyrant.” MayLittlesStatesWholePracticeCasesSubjectsTheoryElectionMajorityDemocraticWorkersObedienceTyrantsFactoriesPassivePettyBenevolenceDespotismBenevolentWorking LifePetty Tyrants Book:Ends and Means: An Inquiry Into the Nature of Ideals and Into the Methods Employed for Their Realization Source: Ends and Means: An Inquiry Into the Nature of Ideals and Into the Methods Employed for Their Realization
“Since the election [of Donald Trump], I've been thinking about a lot of theory. Lots of [Michel] Foucault and [Karl] Marx, thinking about different systems, thinking about power. Trying to figure out what I can take and learn from history as a tool for getting through whatever is happening right now, which feels very significant and major.” ThinkingFeelsTryingI CanDifferentFiguresTheoryTrumpRight NowMajorsHappeningsToolsElectionSignificantSystems Thinking Author:Morgan Parker