I have predicted that the November midterms would be lit, particularly the two senate races between Democrats and celebrity carpetbaggers, one taking place in Pennsylvania and the other in Georgia.

The Georgia contest is actually going to be the wilder one, because Herschel Walker is one of those characters that if a novelist created him, you would say, go back to the drawing boards, this guy is too weird to be real. Unfortunately for America, a lot of those too weird for fiction characters do exist and somehow they find their way onto the GOP ticket.

My favorite is at 1:45 where Walker enthuses about all the graphic details of blowing a man’s brains out.

Maybe this is how America dies, just of sheer stupidity. Alabama had a choice between Tommy Tuberville and Doug Jones. They chose the know nothing football coach. Maybe that’s what will happen in this contest as well.

I don’t know how many times we can have utterly unqualified buffoons in both chambers of Congress before the whole system collapses, but maybe that’s what we’re about to find out.

Neil Postman wrote a book in the early 80’s called “Amusing Ourselves To Death.” If you haven’t read it, do so. He predicted this day would come, when civil discourse left the scene in lieu of bantering by celebrities and politics became a performative art.

The book got my attention back in the 80’s. Now I think the man is Nostradamus.

 

 

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