An Uncandid Candidate

An article in The Atlantic chides Hillary for being “inaccessible, unforthcoming, uncandid, and highly entitled.” The author of the article is obviously unequipped intellectually to appreciate politics as anything other than cheap tabloid melodrama.

As Zygmunt Bauman says, we live in an age where the private has colonized the public to such an extent that we don’t really have a public space any longer. This is why the linked journalist is so pathetically eager for candidates like Jeb Bush who keeps treating us to the distasteful melodrama of his boring relationship with his father and brother.

Hillary Clinton is trying to turn the conversation towards actual political issues and away from Daddy drama, puppies, tuna salad sandwiches, mugs of beer, and other insanely irrelevant stuff. And it’s sorely needed in a culture where people are so incapable of distinguishing between a TV personality and a politician that Donald Trump is not only running but actually doing quite well at the polls.

We should all be eternally grateful that there is at least a single candidate who isn’t treating us to the tasteless candid camera shows to which politics has been reduced.