Last night we watched Mike Judge’s 2006 film Idiocracy. I had been curious to revisit this old comedy favorite. I was not expecting it to resonate so strongly.
And I was certainly not expecting the eerie and disturbing way that the idiotic political rallies in the movie’s dystopian future resembled the Republican presidential candidate’s October 28 rally in Madison Square Garden. How far our nation has traveled in 18 years.
If you had said to anyone in 2006 that those bizarre movie scenes would one day become our nation’s political reality, I am sure they wouldn’t have believed you. The person you were talking to could just point out that such a thing couldn’t actually happen, because real life political candidates are neither that coarse nor that stupid.
Yet here we are. Happy Election Day.