Voters Are Angry, Voters Are Fed Up, Voters Are Blah Blah Blah

[Blue_Tires]

Oh please:

The surging candidacies of Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders are fueled by people’s anger with the status quo and desire for authenticity in political leaders.

We hear this every four years. Voters are always angry. They always prize straight talk. They are endlessly entranced by outsiders. And it's always a surprising new phenomenon.

Can we just stop it? This isn't new. It's an evergreen. But political reporters always believe it, and every four years at least a few of them take a tour of "real" America and find exactly what they set out to find. People are fed up! And yet, every four years a fairly ordinary mainstream politician is eventually sent to the White House anyway. Go figure.

POSTSCRIPT: Someone with access to Nexis should do a stroll through the archives. I'll bet you can easily find at least one example of this in a major newspaper during the early stages of every election cycle for at least the past 40 years.

http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2015/08/voters-are-angry-voters-are-fed-voters-are-blah-blah-blah

[azmom]

1. Go figure? Or as Bernie says, ask yourself why? N/T

[BeyondGeography]

2. They're missing the interesting part, as usual

Or maybe they just want it to go away.

Trump and Sanders are telling us which way the major parties need to go in order to satisfy their respective bases. One direction is fundamentally unhealthy, and the other isn't.

The proof is our frontrunner is comfortable co-opting most of Sanders' message (which helps maintain her lead) while their former frontrunners are waiting/hoping for the pain to go away.

[cascadiance]

3. They're also fed up with PAC owned candidates too...

[leveymg]

4. When doubt sets in, there is always the soft pillow of Denial before the death of Inevitability.

So it went for Hillary's candidacy in '08, and so it is going now. Sleep tight.

[malthaussen]

5. It's like the opening of The Black Company...

... after deatailing all the portents, omens, and signs of incipient disaster, Croaker goes on to say "But this happens every year."

Our media have an attention span of approximately ten seconds, maybe five. One has to love such a childlike sense of wonder: everything is brand new.

-- Mal