too cool for politics

I’ve recently been pondering on all this Stephen Colbert hype to be president. Now that countless people in the United States feel that the war on Iraq is not going well, Bush’s approval ratings have gone down. This notion has really boosted popularity in a democrat being elected for president in 2008. This can be seen in the sudden jump in democrats being voted for in the 2006 senate and election voting. I began to think that people were really interested in politics and the influence it has in the Unites States and around the world. Popularity for such candidates as Hilary Clinton and Barack Obama are evidence of this. Then Stephen Colbert decided that he was going to try and run for president and wanted to be on the South Carolina primary. Colbert ‘seriously’ wanted to run in the primary. He was later turned down by South Carolina because they only wanted serious candidates. Colbert received incredible support from young people. All of a sudden people were talking about this craze and in conversation saying they would vote for Colbert. What strikes me about this is ‘would people really vote for Colbert?’ Would people really vote for someone whose job it is to make jokes about politics, but has never actually been involved in politics in Washington? It’s a scary thought. It has made me really think about how people care about politics, and that perhaps fads and trends are more important than actual issues and politics.