I’ve been say similar things for a very long time. Now Matt Taibbi in Rolling Stone seems to agree with me. His article: How America Made Donald Trump Unstoppable says this:
It turns out we let our electoral process devolve into something so fake and dysfunctional that any half-bright con man with the stones to try it could walk right through the front door and tear it to shreds on the first go.
We were warned a very long time ago by people like Helen Keller, Eugene Debs, and others that our electoral system is an impediment to democracy rather than a vehicle for it. The two party system has kept us all from going after what we really want and has done it very well.
The amount of time, energy and resources we expend playing in to the hands of the system is incredible. Doing the same thing over and over again and expecting the results to change.s Tabbi says it:
Trump is no intellectual. He's not bringing Middlemarch to the toilet. If he had to jail with Stephen Hawking for a year, he wouldn't learn a thing about physics. Hawking would come out on Day 365 talking about models and football.
But, in an insane twist of fate, this bloated billionaire scion has hobbies that have given him insight into the presidential electoral process. He likes women, which got him into beauty pageants. And he likes being famous, which got him into reality TV. He knows show business.
That put him in position to understand that the presidential election campaign is really just a badly acted, billion-dollar TV show whose production costs ludicrously include the political disenfranchisement of its audience. Trump is making a mockery of the show, and the Wolf Blitzers and Anderson Coopers of the world seem appalled. How dare he demean the presidency with his antics?
But they've all got it backward. The presidency is serious. The presidential electoral process, however, is a sick joke, in which everyone loses except the people behind the rope line. And every time some pundit or party spokesman tries to deny it, Trump picks up another vote.
It is one of those time when being able to say “I told you so” is not very satisfying.