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[BainsBane]

161. Nor do they relate to the job of Minority Leader

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Are you really so anxious to have Democrats start peeling off and vote for Trump's legislation? Her job isn't to entertain Republican voters or you. It's to hold the caucus together.

This OP represents precisely what is wrong with American politics. People care too much about image and messaging and not enough about substance and legislation. Fortunately, those unconcerned with the workings of congress don't vote for minority leader. That falls to congresspeople, not Nielsen ratings.

Besides, you got change: Donald Trump. That is precisely what happens in a country of voters focused on contentless slogans rather than policy. They get a dysfunctional government creeping toward authoritarianism. When voters focus relentlessly on slogans, image, and personality, they get vapid leaders, TV personalities rather than legislators or statesmen.

The DCCC, not the House Minority leader, is in charge of congressional campaigns. Her job isn't to entertain you or the precious white male Republicans some have decided are more important than the Democratic base who lack their means and privilege.

Branding is a fine term to use if one wants to turn government into a Madison Avenue corporation, even more so than it already is. It's a corporate term used to sell crap no one needs or wants. I would like to see voters quit wishing for glitzy crap and focus on substance, something that matters. The irony is for all the hue and cry about corporatism and neoliberalism, the demands are to make government more like a media corporations, focused on entertaining rather than substance.

You're pissed off Nancy Pelosi focuses on keeping the Democratic caucus in line rather than being a good entertainer. Too bad. Turn the channel. Find something else to do. Quit worrying that the politicians don't dance fast enough to suit you. Let them do their jobs.

You'll get your wish soon enough anyway. Before long government will be filled entirely with media personalities, because when a voting public cares most about performance and image, they get leaders who do nothing but that. Democracy won't survive, but what can that compare to fresh-faced TV entertainers who deliver the right lines on cue?