It’s always a little shock to every avid football boy growing up in America that the complete enterprise is of course nothing but an entertainment show. There are youth leagues, high schools build facilities, universities create a professional plantation, cities erect stadiums, television thrives, men devote entire lives to athleticism, and professional sports journalism depends on it.
Dude, they might as well be a gypsy troop, they’re PT Barnum with elephants and peanuts. When you’re not developmentally soaking in it it’s instantly obvious to everyone else.
Over the range of a lifetime in the United States of America, finely attuned to politics and history, one naturally assumes a life rhythm to the political Show, the big enchilada, the Presidential race every four years. Of course we junkies follow politics all the time and vote the midterms, but mainly the cosseted, mentally flabby American body of American citizenship pays attention to the Presidential show.
We liberal junkies know very well the sell of our politics lies upon a real foundation of public policy that puts the little people and our freedom first. Time was when it could be reliably said the same mental framework existed for the Republican Party, they abided by the law and American democracy political norms to enact policies for their racist, misogynist, monied status quo constituency.
To our complete horror we have watched the American democracy project be hijacked by the neo-fascism of Donald Trump and the Republican Party. Trump lost in 2016 but squeaked in a stupid American technicality, lost in 2020 and then horribly knifed American democracy by lying he had won.
Only a Mussolini wannabe would do that, Trump is no American, but somehow this is supposed to be normal and real. Trump has been indicted 91 times criminally and my god already been completely smashed up financially by civil trials, he’s a broke beggar. He spews filthy racist, violent language, promises pardons for January 6th felons and completely acts like an early dementia patient.
How the Republican Party got taken over by this clowning criminal con man and enabled by American journalism is another long, complex story, but what we face here on this day of our Lord March 22nd, 2024, American journalism corps, is the issue of how you put on the American political Show this year.
Because there is no political Show this year, Donald Trump is a dangerous, searingly regressive neo-fascist criminal liar who seeks no policy except to end American democracy, there is no political campaign for President this year, just a depressingly pathetic lunge to install another bloated Benito.
Radical leftist! Is always the instant, compulsive reaction of most American journalists to the actual reality of Trump and criticism of their woeful profession. To your immense risk go ahead and think what you wish, American journalism corps, my reality and mission has always rested upon the truth, its brute immutable force here will soon beat up upon your consciousness from many sources, not just from me, that’s how the truth works.
I grow increasingly confident every day Trump can’t possibly win in 2024, even with an But Her Emails journalism corps, but if to our everlasting horror if Trump does prevail it could only be from an immense failure of the American journalism corps to accurately reflect who and what Trump represents.
Forget about the immense cascading political and cultural damage that would instantly follow, my But Her Emails gang, know with all your limited puny consciousness the American public will never, ever casually accept that failure as society as they know it is ripped asunder, they’ll want answers as to how it happened and the truth will instantly, inevitably point to your failure. We wouldn’t have lost the country if you hadn’t let us down.
Given the history of American journalism and their desperate corporate motive to reflect the truth most American observers would state of course the journalism corps will put on the 2024 Show, just as they always have in their maddening, vapid style. It makes a lot of money, has a soothing normalcy and acts as a shield for the shrieking sirens of liberal bias! About those radical leftists!
[opens hands] Okay, it’s not my world, boss. I would only warn our dear journalism cousins that the plain blunt truth about what Trump is and represents will soon spread everywhere, this isn’t a football game, go ahead and tell us the sky is green and put on the Show, just that immense breach of trust will forever lose at least half your audience, they’ll never take you seriously again