“American presidential elections are increasingly indistinguishable from the reality TV competitions drowning the nation’s airwaves. Both are vapid, personality-driven and painfully protracted affairs, with the winners crowned by virtue of their ability to appear slightly more tolerable than the cast of annoying rejects whom the public eliminates one by one”—Glenn Greenwald.
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You can thank Bill Clinton for the never-ending campaign cycle. You can thank unionized K-12 public school teachers and administrators for the large-scale dumbing down of the populace, which in turn necessitates in this day and age the reality TV component of presidential campaigns. I seriously doubt Greenwald could perceive much less to understand the attendant ironies.
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Explain to me how our current population is dumber than the population of the USA circa, oh, 1920.
I mean, I get it: reality TV is annoying. Stupid people are annoying. And it’s really tempting to believe we (wherein “we” means “other people I’m stuck with”) are descending into Idiocracy. But I don’t think that’s actually true.
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@Rob in CT: Well, Mencken in the 1920s did refer to the “boobocracy.”
