The TV Tropes website uses the term Darkness Induced Audience Apathy to refer to movies and tv shows wherein "the setting is extremely but meaninglessly Darker and Edgier, and/or all sides are abhorrently, equally evil—or at least, far enough gone that any difference between the two is splitting hairs." TV Tropes then elaborates "Because the conflict between the equal evils is essentially meaningless, there is no dramatic tension." A good example would be "Game of Thrones." Now the GOP Presidential race hasn't yet resorted to rape, torture and mutilation but it has become an ughsome spectacle. Frankly, I wouldn't put any of the GOP candidates in charge of a picnic, much less the nation as a whole. Marco Rubio declares "America is not a planet." It seemed impossible just a few weeks ago, but it seems that Jeb Bush might actually lose. The really scary thing would happen if Donald Trump were to win the nomination.
Meanwhile, on Capitol Hill, John Boehner has resigned as Speaker of the House. Apparently, the "hard" congressional GOPers felt he wasn't putting enough effort into their new pet cause; attacking Planned Parenthood. The media is now drooling about how Boehner was some kind of great "statesman." In reality he was just an opportunistic slob, without ideas or ideals, who only entered politics for the pay and the perks. If Boehner looks any kind of good, it's because his successor Kevin McCarthy, will be no better and may turn out to be worse.
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