When a 4 year old justifies bad behavior by saying, “they did it first”, we roll our eyes and put on our parenting hats. But this election season has brought out the worst in everybody. I was eager to have a national conversation about high level corruption in banking and in government, some kind of idea exchange about global warming and what to do about it, and maybe some deeper examination of the health care crisis. But right there with a laugh track and applause, the Foley board also seems to come equipped with a “crickets” setting, something I heard being blasted at the highest volume whenever Bernie Sanders opened his mouth.
Fine, we’re not going to discuss grown up things. Instead we’re going to back to second grade and talk endlessly about what a doody-head Trump is. (As if it were sudden, unexpected, breaking news)
Of course there are other issues on the ballot, and there are other important news stories going on, and BB is there for much of it. But it’s so god damn much fun to ridicule this clown, everyone seems to just love it!
I honestly don’t want to do any of the republicans’ work for them, but I kinda wonder what it would be like to have a real political conversation about real issues, with somone I disagree with. Instead all I get is people talking @ me. Even the ones who think they agree with me are getting pretty annoying about now…
