Party politics is certainly a turn off. I don't really identify with either major American political party. I'm too far to the left regarding the economy to match the democrats and I'm a bit more radical than that party regarding services and the place of government (it's there to work for the people, for christ's sake it's not a business and shouldn't be run like one).
However, I think with the media coverage of politics, you have to have a very specific personality to not be turned off by the mechanism. I can't imagine living under a microscope and handling the politics of the whole game.
Basically, I agree with you, but feel that the ubiquity of the media has simply made the people that want to 'serve' the nation back away and has left the entire system to the people that want the nation to serve them (to be melodramatic, it's obviously a generalisation and not clear cut). But what is the media to do? People want to hear about this stuff. And the media does have an obligation to report on it. But that obligation is tending more and more towards party propaganda rather than independent editorials and coverage.
Basically big business has shafted us again by having purely profit-driven news.
Couple this with the current nexus of government and media with its layers of old boy/girl networks, intermarriage between media/govt figures, shifting in/out of of govt/media/lobbying and its self-licking ice cream cone of bonuses and payoffs. Add another layer of narrative driven utopian theatre that is so at odds with the daily lived lives of the deplorable masses in their little towns and hamlets, and we have a guaranteed future of an America with a president (either would qualify for this) that is as roundly and deeply hated in half the nation as Thatcher is in L4.
For four long years.
A govt with Clinton at the heart of this would be lifted and accelerated by this pantomime act in DC, while Trump would be treated with a more emetic response by those within the beltway. Anyone asking me to accept Trump as POTUS twelve months ago got a look of bemused disbelief from yours truly.
Reason enough then for many to vote for the serial groper, rather than the harried spouse of the other serial philanderer. I'm still waiting for a leak of on board footage from the Lolita Express, just to see if we can make this campaign into the political equivalent of the
mohole project.
It was often said in the nineteenth century that "God takes care of children, drunkards, and the United States of America." Let us pray that this is still true. If I can vote for anything, I can vote for that.
