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Can you stupid fucks stop worshiping celebrities for like FIVE MINUTES.
I don't get how mindless our population is.
Volodymyr Zelenskyy was a standup comedian and I think he's doing a pretty good job as president.
Zelensky was the star of a sitcom about a public school teacher who becomes president, and cleans up government corruption.
Ukraine was incredibly corrupt, filled with Russian stooges who were looting the country blind, and the people wanted Zelensky's character as president. That character was fictional, so Zelensky was the next best thing, and it turns out that he took his job as seriously as his TV character.
I am not saying a celebrity couldn't do a good job, I just want people to use their minds instead of throwing someone on a pedestal who has expressed no interest OR political capital in the system.
I don't know Zelenski's history but Ukraine was a massively complicated and broken situation and Zelenski was basically forced into a prominent and center-stage position by events outside his control, we'll never know if he could have navigated the political theater without the country going into a wartime lockdown.
Well, we've already had Reagan, Schwarzenegger, Jesse Ventura, arguably Al Franken (he was on SNL), not to mention the Cheeto Bandito. Clint Eastwood and even Jerry goddamned Springer both made it as far as mayor. There are probably tons of others I'm forgetting.
So that ship has likely sailed, I'm sorry to say. Too late; we're already stupid.
Springer went the opposite direction. He was a lawyer and a politician, and after his career fizzled, he went into media. He was an actual news anchor before he got a national reputation for hosting a trashy TV show.
I would argue that most of those celebrities-turned-effective-politician (Franken was not effective long-term, he bowed out for stupid reasons) each had a lot more than face recognition, they were also snakes and scum or narcissists and I just don't see Stewart in the crowd. He hasn't expressed desire for politics, he has been an advocate and has been a great orator and journalist in his own way, but he is a different kind of person who wants different things, this means a distinct lack of political capital.
As a non-American, this baffles me.
Jon Stewart is not a "celebrity". It's not like electing Jim Carrey to be president. He's shown himself to be politically savvy and informed on policy and just generally thoughtful and intelligent many times. He seems like he'd make a good politician, and also he has a massive following already.
Permitted, systemic destruction of our education system via exploiting the idea of "fierce independence" I guess from reality itself, over the last half century or so.
Fierce independence and rugged individualism....just like everybody else!
The "left" has absolutely failed to produce any candidate willing to fight for socialized healthcare, workers rights, anti-genocide, proper immigration, lifting up the poor, increased salaries and taxing the rich.
Stewart has been bipartisanly slinging shit at every politician doing stupid shit for years. He's politically educated absolutely amazing at speaking.
Our political system is on rails, we are only capable of fielding corporate shills, and only in two flavors: the ones that want to kill the poor and immigrants, and the ones that just want them to almost but not quite starve.
It is quite impossible to third-party someone organically; it may not even be possible to third party someone with money and connections.
Either way, you won't have to worry about it, they'll dismantle enough of the vote (already underway) that it doesn't matter what people do, we're going to stay on these rails until a true uprising happens. And we'll probably live to see armed atlas bots patrolling the streets mowing down 'dissidents'. It's only a matter of time.