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The Glorious Future Of Politics
Let’s have more reality!
Twenty-seven years of living, working, and traveling extensively across the USA taught me one ineradicable lesson: it’s impossible to parody the USA.
No matter how absurd, unfortunate, disturbing, or profoundly unhealthy something may be, provided someone somewhere can make money from it then it will become reality. I once wrote a young adult novel for the amusement of my then-teenage daughter in which I invented the donutburger. Two years later I saw an ad for one in the window of a second-tier US fast food outlet. And as anyone who is even vaguely aware of US evangelical preachers knows, even the most outrageous parody pales in comparison with the real thing.
The fact is, the USA is a place where parody is transformed into reality in order to generate revenue.
It is thus most humbly I proffer the future of US politics here in this article, shortly to become an accepted and beloved reality across the United States of America.
As we all know, the essence of representative democracy is that the most entertaining performer gets the most votes. As ordinary people know nothing and understand nothing and quickly get bored by difficult topics, success in any system of representative democracy comes from being able to attract and retain the short…
