[quote=@ClocktowerEchos] Welcome to the land where everyone watched the Super Bowl by the millions but suddenly aren't interested in TV once politics or literally anything important comes one. This is honestly one factor of why I think we just need to get rid of major league sports and erase that shit entirely. [/quote] Have you met Americans before? I'm all for things that keep uninterested people away from the ballot box. People who don't give one single shit for three consecutive years, then magically wake up and find political religion for a few months during Negative Ad Year, are a blight. I blame these shenanigans on the Vote or Die campaign. ....and, also, I mean, politics by lowest-common-denominator was never really SUPPOSED to give us some brilliant government. The whole idea is to elect the government that pisses everybody off the least (ever heard that Churchill-ism, 'democracy is the worst form of government, except for all the other ones?') Having two jerks facing off for the presidency shouldn't be a big deal -- they shouldn't be capable of wrecking the whole damn country. So a big part of the problem is that we treat these 49-to-47 "blowout" victories among the 30% of the population that actually votes as some kind of 'mandate from the masses.' All we're really saying is "eh, I guess you'll do for a while." But that gets spun into "AMERICA HAS OFFICIALLY DECIDED THAT TACOS ARE BOTH FREE AND MANDATORY," or whatever nonsense the jerk was running on.