We live in a ‘Game of Thrones’ world

“Game of Thrones” is in the common vernacular whether or not you watch the HBO show.
Our household made it through an episode and a half of the medieval, or whenever it’s supposed to be, gang rape and incestuous bloody weddings before switching over to some other dinnertime fiction.
But we all know what someone using “Game of Thrones” as a contemporary political metaphor would be saying about still-extant feudalism and brutal power plays.
And so last week when I had