Upon re - watch out “ Bart to the Future ” , the seventeenth episode ofThe Simpson ‘ 11th time of year recently , the reality drop in that we wereso closeto our first female president . WatchingLisa Simpsonsitting in the oval office , the words of Adele ’s “ Rolling in the Deep ” resound in my head : we could have had it all . A Lisa sit down in a purple wooing with pearl , similarly donned by Vice President Harris at President Biden ’s election in 2020 and who ’s ego - consciousness came to light when she quoted a Simpson episode as part of her political endeavors , a snip of her during aSimpsonspanel at SDCC last yearwas played where she quoted “ We must move forward , not feebleminded , upward , not ahead , and always twirling , twirling , twirling towards freedom . ” from “ Treehouse of Horror VII ” .
Granted one of the first matters of line of work Lisa has to hang in “ Bart to the Future”–where Bart sees a sight of his , his household ’s , and the land ’s futurity – is the debt we conglomerate from President Trump . A frankly first-rate handbill parentage from the year 2000 that no one could have believed would arrive true , have alone double , which really manifested itself . Alas , here we are , and results have wide-ranging day to day in this dystopia . Ironically , Bart has a line that says the United States could n’t handlehimas the president for being “ too real , ” a production line of impression that seems to be going around these days . Future Bart might have more in usual with those in power than he could have imagined . But if that ’s a line of latitude we can withdraw with the gift of hindsight , it also raise another question : what ’s it going to take to see a Lisa Simpson in office ?
Growing up alongside the show , Lisa has always been the voice of reason in the Simpsons mob . The disgraceful sheep in the community of middle category neighbors , who present all walkway of aliveness one could receive in any - townsfolk , America . The comedic episodes ful of giddy and often questionable Springfieldian prank were often grounded by the empathy Lisa expressed for her fellow adult male , in the face of being quite often misunderstood . She made sense of her parents , her erratic male parent , her overstressed high-pitched - functioning mother , her disaffected chum , and everyone around her , and often did so to make them to arrive together and face whatever rigor they were shin with this workweek .
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From being an pleader for human and animal rights as a role model for young girls , I really put stake into her ideals and hunger for knowledge . And much like the cartoons before it , in the way thatLooney Tunesintroduced many of us to authoritative music and opera house , I learned so much about culture I would n’t have sought after if not for the show , through Lisa ’s eye . HerTell - tale Heart“It ’s the beating of that hideous heart ! ” line delivery in “ Lisa ’s Rival ” lives pull free in my head teacher and get me into Poe ’s works . Even that sequence , where Lisa sabotaged a classmate ’s project to meliorate her own chances , showed how no matter how complete a kid could strive to be , they were only human and prone to jealousy too . And let ’s not forget what a little heartbreaker she is , from Ralph ’s “ I Choo - choo - chose you ” rejection , Milhouse ’s pining to Nelson ’s improbable romance . Lisa Simpson will forever bethat girland perhaps no one could match her the like in animation story .
But now as I approach the eld of someone who could be a president , the allurement of a figure exemplifying the nonesuch Lisa did in our own mellow office remains , decades - old prescient episodes of the show or not . Lisa ’s pity her good sense of justice and injustice , her willingness to get stuck in and deal with the messes laid out ahead of her , and the love she had for her family and community , are broad nonpareil befitting the highest office of them all in this land . And while the news , however outrageous , keep to shock and depress us 24-hour interval to day , and it has still has me thinking back to another interchange in “ Bart to the Future ” , where Homer says , “ What a bleak and horrible hereafter we live in ! ” only for Bart to respond “ Do n’t you mean “ present ” ? ”
Sure , that ’s where we are powerful now , but I ’d care to cerebrate we ’re still wait for the President Lisa Simpson on the purview – and that she could be any one of us .
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