Push Button Matilda

What informs your average American? 

From the Cosmic staff... A Story

Collage by TMITH -  Jesus, all American?

From...
Zzen:
Push Button Matilda tried to find a spoon looked out the window and fell in love with the moon. What does that have to do with America full of greed? A wildly snorting animal and enigmatic war steed? Easily misled, Push Button Matilda cannot see past the TV screen and so votes for the nasty, the vile, and the obscene.
Phineas:
Fear mongering anti-intellectual zombies, for what else is a person who refuses to think?!! Push Button Matilda sees a brown person walking down the street - she's very patriotic and thinks he needs to be beat - She calls the police and starts to fret, for she truly believes she sees a threat (he looks like that football player, the one who took a knee) The flag! The flag! The flag is not free! "He's looking in peoples windows" she cries out lying (it really didn't take her that much trying). The police come and subdue the intruder, right outside his own front door - He won't try that walking down the street stuff, not anymore...
Deegan:
He resisted their "directions" and having no connections - had to be dispensed with - all patriotic style - while Push Button Matilda watched with a smile - "Serves 'em right for simply being, they are all no account heathens!"
Reynard:
Push Button Matilda looks at her shiny plastic Jesus then shifts her eyes to her nylon flag, there is more to her than being a drag. Hatred allows her to brag a bit. Hatred gives her a small sense of power. She sits alone in her cardboard tower and says, "At least I'm no nigger or Muslim!" She thinks - then pauses, because her thoughts - her thoughts betray her - for in the deep of night just a little bit later, she wishes indeed, for a brown invader.

Understanding "Push Button"

Literature Analysis by Hans Cockerel Wheems

The PBM character is easily distracted by anything lacking weight, hence the moon and television. Fear is a major component that builds PBM's disposition, the facts concerning the fear are never entertained and when challenged PBM will not budge or give consideration to any fact that might break down her media fabricated outlook towards non-tribe members. (Actually any action that challenges her worldview - no matter how absolutely concrete - is met with fierce  and preferably violent resistance) one reason for her disdain of protestors. Lying to solidify her outlook is not a moral issue at all. This is common with authoritarians. Increasing self esteem by self identifying against outside (innocent) groups is also a common trait as is sensual objectification/dehumanization of said groups. This "poem" covers a broad expanse of issues - yet captures much of the essential angst of many "racially oriented" Americans today.