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Seeking Elora
An indie novelist muses about writing, society, and the arts.
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Entry #663977, added on 08-17-09 @ 11:33 am EDT
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When we turn our politicians into celebs...Entry #663977
Dancing With The Stars announced their new celeb lineup for season 9. Anyone who has followed me long knows I'm a fan of the show. The hype is getting more than I appreciate, but I love the idea of taking non-dancers, pairing them with pro dancers, and seeing what they can do when they're willing to work at it. I also love ballroom dancing.

I'm really glad to see Donny Osmond will be there and I was hoping so after Marie was. [I do have a feeling having her on it before she lost all that weight on that diet plan was a setup, but then I'm sure they all are a set up.] What I don't appreciate (besides having that Madonna vid dancer included since she's already a dancer) is Tom DeLay being one of the "stars" for the show.

Tom DeLay... Former Republican Majority Leader

When we turn our politicians into celebrities, it's time to take a huge step backwards and change that.

That's especially true when it's a politician who was indicted on campaign finance charges, or other charges. Not only is he a politician, but he's a criminal politician (maybe that's redundant). Why is he considered celebrity enough to be billed as one?

When our politicans become celebrities, the whole focus changes. It is not about the issues. It is not about what's best for our country. It's about who can manage the most limelight. Of course we saw that during this last election. Celebrity worship of politicians had been leading up to that moment for a long time and now we're seeing the results of that folly large scale. We started with George Washington, commander of troops and hard-working real leader type, worked up to Abraham Lincoln who has so far been the biggest fighter for equality and a brilliant thinker, to Kennedy who brought in the charm and celebrity appearance to make people want to follow him, along with his hidden mafia ties (somewhat hidden - people knew but it stayed repressed), and now we have the technology president, media skilled, blackberry in hand.

And we have 'disgraced' politicians being stars on reality shows.

In statistics, there is a graph that starts on a baseline, rises to a high point, then returns to baseline. I have a feeling we are pretty close now to that return baseline. Let's hope we can keep it from hitting the line and instead, pull back up again.

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