Around eight years ago, I started to get into reality shows. You know....like Amish Mafia, Pawn Stars, Hardcore Pawn, or Ice Road Truckers. At some point in early 2013, I was probably watching twenty-plus hours a week of reality TV.
I reached some stage in the spring of 2016, where I started to identify Donald Trump, the GOP, Hillary Clinton, the Democrats, the news media, social media (Facebook, Twitter, etc), and politics.....as reality TV. It's just pure entertainment.
After the election? Well....it just got better and better. Journalists came on the air and literally made themselves into WWE-wrestling type 'talkers'. If you watched CNN for all of 2017....it was pure WWE-wrestling....around the clock. Sometimes, there were three or four wrestling-type commentators chatting away, and you'd get a thrill or two every five minutes.
Without realizing it....both the Democratic and Republican Party became wrestlers. Some folks play the act as 'managers', and some play the act as 'wrestlers'.
Yesterday, it reached a high point on reality TV enthusiasm....as Nancy was on the bus and probably halfway out to the Air Force Base with her 'entourage' for some grand tour (what wrestlers typically do). That's when President Trump came out with some letter....telling Nancy and her entourage....the 'luxury-jet' ride was not possible. A bunch of fake journalists came on the air, then cried rivers of tears....like good fake wrestlers would do.....and then vowed some revenge.
The problem here, is that a lot of us are now divided. Me.....I see it as pure entertainment. But there are folks who get caught up into this gimmick, and think it's all real. For some, this is better than a Baptist revival or state fair visit in August.
Does anyone even realize what it's become? I doubt that. If they did come to realize the fakeness of democracy.....then we'd all kinda slip out of the room, and head back home embarrassed at how we got all hyped up over nothing.
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