This is a political reality show dumpster fire

| 10:00 pm EDT June 18, 2023
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When and how did this happen? How did the politics of America get reduced to a reality TV show? Perhaps readers, you remember the Jim Carrey film “The Truman Show.” It came out in 1998. Jim Carrey played the man who lived his own life unaware that this life was just a massive, reality TV set.

This film was WAY ahead of its time. Nowadays, we all live in a reality TV show. But more disturbingly are the spectators. Allow me to cite an example. The other night the Congressional Baseball game was held. It was for charity. Many a Congressperson was there. Liar George Santos was there.

Allow me to describe what took place at this event. Santos was mobbed. And it wasn’t by a bunch of people calling him “Liar, Liar.” Not at all. George Santos had a line waiting for him of star-struck reality politics fans who wanted selfies with the liar. This begs the question of what came first: the liar or the audience?

We are living in frightening times. So many seemed to have been dumbed down, worshiping anyone famous or well-known, no matter how atrocious their actions, eager to let in some insincere light to their lives, anxious to know just a tad bit of fame and glory themselves.

“He could literally win the presidential race right NOW,” said one of the Santos fans. No, he couldn’t. Thank goodness, we’re not at THAT point yet. However, never say never. I mean it.

Perhaps it was reality TV itself which sparked this furious and fervent need of many for admiration. After all, with the rise of social media, everyone had an audience. Anyone could post anything they wanted, whether it was true or not.

And many began to see EVERYTHING from the light of the flickering television set. All of a sudden, millions were starring in their reality shows. A Million “Truman Shows” had spawned.

Only people did not turn away in horror; many willingly embraced the fake artifice of being SEEN and being noticed. And likewise, people wanted to be around the ones noticed the MOST — even if they were noticed for all of the wrong reasons