The bad thing is that I can imagine him saying it in hectoring tone on Real Time this Friday. With an addition in the beginning of "Look..."
The funny thing is - cough, cough - if you could change the past and have Meathead say it in the 1970s - the tv audience would get mad. CBS would get a flood of telephone calls and letters (I almost wrote "emails") - complaining that voting for who you want is the American way and it's how democracy works! Of course - way back then the democrats didn't give a fuck because the number wasn't important at all.
In the 1990s - I hardly paid attention to politics at all but I don't remember tedious lib lecturing about how people must vote. They're beyond annoying now.
Maybe it'll come back to bite them some day when after crying wolf so many times to keep the status quo going, their electoral support just collapses. Like out of nowhere. And no matter how many times they scream on all the media platforms they control, they are ignored. On the other hand, they could always give that notion a fresh lease on life by trying to convince the next cohort of young people that "this is the most important election since the last one." But maybe that might even lose its juice, especially if an alternative political force is built to finally break the cycle of vote-scolding.
The bad thing is that I can imagine him saying it in hectoring tone on Real Time this Friday. With an addition in the beginning of "Look..."
The funny thing is - cough, cough - if you could change the past and have Meathead say it in the 1970s - the tv audience would get mad. CBS would get a flood of telephone calls and letters (I almost wrote "emails") - complaining that voting for who you want is the American way and it's how democracy works! Of course - way back then the democrats didn't give a fuck because the number wasn't important at all.
In the 1990s - I hardly paid attention to politics at all but I don't remember tedious lib lecturing about how people must vote. They're beyond annoying now.
Maybe it'll come back to bite them some day when after crying wolf so many times to keep the status quo going, their electoral support just collapses. Like out of nowhere. And no matter how many times they scream on all the media platforms they control, they are ignored. On the other hand, they could always give that notion a fresh lease on life by trying to convince the next cohort of young people that "this is the most important election since the last one." But maybe that might even lose its juice, especially if an alternative political force is built to finally break the cycle of vote-scolding.