AMUSING U.S. TO DEATH: Only in America could another celebrity be entertained as a (spoiler) presidential candidate during a pandemic ravaging our country, after a failed one has amused fellow citizens—and much of our democracy—to death.
There is nothing more repulsive than @kanyewest’s publicity stunt/scam candidacy, while Americans are dying precisely because celebrity know-nothingism hijacked our public life and political process.
As @NormOrnstein noted, @kanyewest and @elonmusk are egomaniacal tools of @realDonaldTrump. We happened to revisit Kanye’s prostituting himself to and legitimizing racist Trump in an episode with @9thwonder dropping this week.
I hope this is my last thread on the subject. @SarahLongwell25 noted astutely it’s indictment of 2020, but also and more specifically an indictment of America in 2020, its foolishness and relegation of education, expertise (cc: @RadioFreeTom).
As the host of one of the last surviving educational TV series, it‘s particularly demoralizing and enraging. But Neil Postman and @jayrosen_nyu have known this every step of the way.
