A National ‘American Idol,’ Boring Us to Death
The run-up to the primaries—still an agonizing six months away—has become a political parody of American Idol, with pasted-together faux ‘debates’ blindsiding a dozen wobbly candidates with questions like ‘all those who believe God created the earth, raise their hands.'’
It’s seriously become a matter of whether anyone will really care by the time this presidential-election cycle is over. Here we are, still with 502 days left before we actually walk in to our polling-places and the media is consumed with (sigh) Hillary’s choice of theme-song for her candidacy. Five hundred and two days remaining to hit us between the eyes with such important issues. The run-up to the primaries—still an agonizing six months away—has become a political parody of American Idol, with pasted-together faux ‘debates’ blindsiding a dozen wobbly candidates with questions like ‘all those who believe God created the earth, raise their hands.’ That format isn’t about learning anything useful, it’s about hyping the…