Politick

Every important figure in communist China, ranging from city mayors to the chief executives of state-owned enterprises, will gather and politick for the next five days—and then choose a President of China to succeed Hu Jintao in 2012.

Now, explicit politicking is banned by the academy, though writing to your friends is not. There is a way to politick subtly, though, and Summit, Hurt Locker’s distributor had been doing it just right, with its perfect publicists getting word out about the movie and “friends of the filmmakers” hosting a series of private parties.

Individuals can oppose one another full-force on subjects like Obamacare, or a border wall, or the best person to fill a Supreme Court vacancy, in concert with this project. They can politick and debate, protest and lobby, write Washington and picket Main Street.

Being Googley had a motto: “Don't politick. Use data.”

The Queen doesn’t moan. Her son does. The Queen doesn’t politick. He can’t help himself.

The next three years, including municipal elections in 2026, will be dominated, therefore, by politicking over the place of the far right.