I haven’t been writing about the US midterms much, because I don’t care about that nonsense anymore. The whole thing’s a fake pro wrestling performance staged every couple of years to give a heavily armed populace the illusory sense that they have some degree of control over the things their government does.

Holy shit yes exactly. This is exactly the thought I had earlier today, and have been expressing online a lot today. It matters as much as a football game at this point, and what's worse is that's how most people treat it.