” … thoughtfully and respectfully addresses some very tough tactical issues that have stymied organizers for a long time.”
Gary Shaul, long-time organizer
The alienation effect was Brecht’s principle of using innovative theatrical techniques to “make the familiar strange” in order to provoke a social-critical audience response.
Running for public office as a creative prank — not to win the election, but to get attention for a radical critique of policy or to sabotage the campaign of a particularly heinous candidate.