Tuesday, September 02, 2008

How to revolutionize US politics right this minute with no effort whatsoever

So apparently there's a US politician whose teenage daughter is pregnant. And most people don't want a big deal made of this (because it's politically inconvenient to them and/or because they want to be better than that). Some people do want to make a big deal of it, either because it's good gossip or because a big deal would be made if the roles were reversed or out of misfired schadenfreude, but it sounds like the major players don't want to make a big deal.

So here's all everyone has to do: don't make a big deal of it. Leave the kid alone. Everyone wins! All the politicians and pundits etc. will be taking the high road and come out looking like better people for it. Because of the precedent this will set, it will move all politicians' families a bit further out of the campaign spotlight and the state a bit further out of the bedrooms of the nation, which will make some room for discussion of actual issues (I understand y'all are having a spot of economic trouble? And there's a sort of messy war-related thing going on?) to the benefit of all USians. Then after the rest of the campaign continues on this higher note, people will be hesitant to take cheap shots at people's private lives because you don't want to be single-handedly responsible for lowering the tenor of your entire country's political discourse.

And the best thing about this technique is you don't have to do a damn thing. All you have to do is not pay any attention to this one person, which I'll be you've been doing the vast majority of your life anyway.

2 comments:

laura k said...

But the MSM won't like it because they live for gossip, and apparently much of the public does, too.

I am also using USians now. Great!

impudent strumpet said...

I'm sure there's far better gossip out there about the grownups.

Although they aren't giving the kid as hard a time as I thought they would so far, so that's good-ish.