A new poll suggests that at least 46 percent of Americans would support Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson running for president, while 63 percent believe that Hollywood stars could "make good politicians."
celebrity presidential nominees are basically the death knell of American Democracy such as it is
All politicians are, at the end of the day, celebrities. There is no way to win a regional campaign if nobody knows who the fuck you are.
MacFarlane is doing the "Idiocracy" bit where he pretends past presidents have been experts and savants, but future "celebrity" presidents will be dumbies who look pretty. But there's nothing special about the current generation. Neither was there anything special about the prior generations. Nixon, Reagan, Clinton, Obama - all did the celebrity thing. They all sucked.
MacFarlane is doing the “Idiocracy” bit where he pretends past presidents have been experts and savants
No, he really isn't but go off. I for one see it pretty clearly as a complaint that the election can't become a literal popularity contest between literal celebrities who have more soft power and recognition than your average politician.
All politicians are, at the end of the day, celebrities. There is no way to win a regional campaign if nobody knows who the fuck you are.
MacFarlane is doing the "Idiocracy" bit where he pretends past presidents have been experts and savants, but future "celebrity" presidents will be dumbies who look pretty. But there's nothing special about the current generation. Neither was there anything special about the prior generations. Nixon, Reagan, Clinton, Obama - all did the celebrity thing. They all sucked.
They've always been celebrities. They've always sucked. Twitter hasn't changed that.
No, he really isn't but go off. I for one see it pretty clearly as a complaint that the election can't become a literal popularity contest between literal celebrities who have more soft power and recognition than your average politician.
There is no other way to do a democracy, pretty much by construction.