Just a reminder that we have a massive segment of media that treats politics like sports, overlooks human suffering in favor of messaging and gamesmanship, and is so disingenuous and devoid of any sense of reality that it constantly and inevitably contradicts itself. 
Our politics has become an interactive TV show ala American Idol, where fabricated obstacles and manufactured scandals/crises are sold through narratives to gauge how public figures will navigate them, but only in their communication.
It’s broken. So, so broken.
It’s broken. So, so broken.
We have to reject this spectacle-driven politics that treats life or death reality as entertainment and a game.
It’s addictive and omnipresent, but we simply have to move beyond it.
It’s addictive and omnipresent, but we simply have to move beyond it.
Fwiw, these Sunday shows have lately been programmed to simulate for politically-invested people what politicos and insiders talk about behind closed doors.
It’s palace intrigue, gamesmanship, gossip. They trivialize real, human issues through a privileged, unaffected lens.
It’s palace intrigue, gamesmanship, gossip. They trivialize real, human issues through a privileged, unaffected lens.
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