Some Thoughts on Buttigieg Taking Off and Warren Seeming to be Grounded

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17. Nanjeanne mentioned a huge one -- the media, and fashion.

This is a weird election, where even the political media are being passed by on other routes.
However, in EVERY election without fail, what is new and shiny gets a lot more attention than what is in comparison the "same-old."

What happens in every other form of our consumerism happens in politics also. Buttigieg benefits by becoming politics' version of 2019's trendy gold wedding gowns (in 2018 Avenatti was a trashy but mercifully transient version), while poor Senator Warren is boring old white satin and lace.

And yes, he's a man and she's a woman, of course another same-old biggie.

"Because Champagne shouldn't just be for the toast."


Our two-year campaign seasons are terrible and election reform should do away with them, but at least it gives time, for the fortunate cut of candidates anyway, for some of the newness to become old and to lose its hold on the frivolity and fickleness that have become part of our modern "spiritus mundi."