(Editor’s note: now that Donald Trump has won the U.S. Presidential Election, we revisit and republish this essay which saw this coming back in the spring)
In 2016, America is more politicized than ever. Politics are the new spectator sport, and The Sports Bank does and always has gotten political once in a great while. You can’t separate politics from other facets of life anyway. TSB is always about entertainment and pop culture too, so you’ll probably enjoy this piece I wrote on the film “Idiocracy,” and how much Donald Trump is emulating the President in the movie.
I penned it for Bold, and you can read the entire op-ed at this link. Here’s an excerpt below:
There’s a legitimate chance America could seriously be heading towards a dystopic reality portrayed in the 2006 comedy “Idiocracy.”
If you want to know what a Donald Trump Presidency would entail, I suggest you go online and stream the Mike Judge film tonight. Watch it and you’ll see how prophetic Idiocracy was when it was written 11 years ago.
The film centers around a man of perfectly average intelligence who wakes up 500 years later do to a U.S. Army experiment gone horribly awry. The main character, played by Luke Wilson finds a world where the below, far below, and very far below average in intelligence populate the entire country.
They’re ruled by President Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho, who has so many similarities to Donald Trump, it’s sometimes to difficult to discern fiction from reality.
Paul M. Banks runs The Sports Bank.net, partnered with FOX Sports Engage Network. and News Now. Banks, a former writer for the Washington Times, currently contributes regularly to the Chicago Tribune’s RedEye publication and Bold Global.
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