It’s All Fake: Reality TV That Masquerades as American Politics

It’s All Fake: Reality TV That Masquerades as American Politics: This not only explains how a candidate like Donald Trump could get elected, but it also says a lot about how a politician like Barack Obama—whose tenure in the White House was characterized by drone killing and an expansion of the police state—could be hailed as “one of the greatest presidents of all times.”

as the author John Whitehead concludes the article :

"...The bottom line is simply this: Americans should beware of letting others—whether they be television news hosts, political commentators or media corporations—do their thinking for them. 

As I make clear in my book A Government of Wolves: The Emerging American Police State, a populace that cannot think for themselves is a populace with its backs to the walls: mute in the face of elected officials who refuse to represent us, helpless in the face of police brutality, powerless in the face of militarized tactics and technology that treat us like enemy combatants on a battlefield, and naked in the face of government surveillance that sees and hears all.

It’s time to change the channel, tune out the reality TV show, and push back against the real menace of the police state. If not, if we continue to sit back and lose ourselves in political programming, we will remain a captive audience to a farce that grows more absurd by the minute..."