> what began as a journalistic forum devolved into a WWE match before the first voter asked a question. Insert astronaut "always was" meme here Politics isn't

> what began as a journalistic forum devolved into a WWE match before the first voter asked a question. Insert astronaut "always was" meme here Politics isn't like wrestling, it is wrestling. The defining property of wrestling isn't that the outcomes are predetermined, the defining property is a stage show to get viewers emotionally invested in a fight. Most people are too busy feeling superior for not believing in fake fighting so they fail to understand it's appeal, and wind up falling for the same exact tricks. "But the outcome is actually important in politics" one might say. Yeah, and those dummies are letting themselves get conned on the surface level so the politicians don't even have to try and con them on the policy level. The reason the news is fucked is they steadfastly refuse to acknowledge to themselves that always choose spectacle over civic education.