And now, two months after the March 7 Super Tuesday show, California is a political dust bowl. There is no substantive political debate, no earthshaking grassroots activity, no excitement of any kind. We are in the Election Year Lull. It does mean that the only people interested right now in the presidential election are political junkies and politicians. For the man and woman on the street, this is The Lull.
Presidential elections are primarily spectacle, mostly smoke with little flame, and almost no light.
And it my be that your life wouldn't change that drastically no matter how the election turns out. And most people have more going on in their lives than politics. In fact, almost everything in daily life is more important than national politics, at least the way it's handled by the media. Rather than listen to city councils debate parking fees, or county supervisors discuss their pensions, most folks would rather get on with the shopping, taking the kids to the dentist, cooking dinner, or almost anything else. But I'll bet there's more to your life than reading proposed legislation or collecting ballot signatures.