Governator Giggles

by digby

I still can’t stop laughing whenever our California Governor speaks (as he is this morning on CNN.). I know it’s not fair. He can’t help it that his entire career prior to becoming Governor was spent delivering stupid lines in a thick Austrian accent. I can’t help associating him with them either.

I’ve never really gotten over the fact that this state actually voted for this man. Twice. It’s not that he’s any worse than most Republicans, but then that’s a pretty low bar. It’s just that they knowingly voted for a man’s carefully crafted macho movie image as if that image was real — and didn’t think there was anything wrong with that. He hadn’t established his bona fides in any way other than creating a physical fitness program and marrying a woman from a political family and yet because he was a popular movie star he was catapulted into one of the most powerful political positions in the country. It was decadent and dumb. But then after George W. Bush was elected because people preferred to party with him, it wasn’t entirely unpredictable.

I predict that this era will be remembered by history as one of the most bizarre periods in American history. Maybe it’s just some sort of fin de siècle millenial weirdness and it will pass. But the last time, the strangeness lasted until WWI. Let’s hope the faster pace of the modern world makes this freakshow end sooner than that. Oy.

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