The American election for the next President of the United States is now fatally flawed. Old traditional patterns of campaigning, covering campaigns, talking to voters, talking to other candidates -- all those processes are broke and broken.
We tweet innuendos -- begin a media-covered controversy, and reduce the argument to one that is totally absurd. What had done this? Social media, Donald Trump, staid Republican obstructionism, anti-government sentiment, what? We are in a "reductio ad absurdum" situation! We don't know who to vote for because there is no one we can or should vote for. The politics of the distant past is attractive but impossible to reattain. The politics of the present amounts to criminal mischief -- rather than solving any kind of real problems. The politics of the future my hold a "strong man" or "strong woman" presidency without allowing for any progress at all.
Things will go on -- but at an even more ridiculous pace than currently. "Idiocracy" in the real world order, has now arrived.
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