Washington's New Reality TV

I am a big fan for evening TV drama's. I was in love with the hit show "24". It was about an patriotic intelligence agent named Jack Bauer, who in one day had to save America from a nuclear terrorist plot. Jack did all sorts of undercover operations, some of which were not very ethical, but the need for results outweighed the means. I also liked it because it gave us our first "black" President. President Palmer, was a good and ethical man, leading our country against the forces of evil, even while others in the government worked against him. Great action and drama. Later on in life we got a real black President in President Obama.

Other dramas have followed like The West Wing, Scandal, Madame Secretary, The Sole Survivor, and others. As I watched these I always felt in the back of my mind that these were just fictitious scripts, developed in the minds of talented writers, and this stuff could never really happen. However, the more I watched and the more I watch real life news, the more it appears that these shows are born from events that can and to some extent do occur. I watched the series Tyrant, and it reminds me more and more about the middle east and Syria in particular. The U.S. is portrayed in a different manner, and we also have an immigrant to America, who returns to his homeland to try and make a change. However, the inner workings of the show is quite believable.

Scandal was one of my favorites. It deals with the powerful influencers in government and at the highest levels. The actions of the President and his staff, as well as clandestine agencies and activities. e At the center of it is a love story as well as how to get a President elected. The acting parts could be interchanged with  the accusations that are swirling around our current President and his cabinet. We now have a reality tv star and international billionaire businessman running the country as President. He somehow beat out the establishment in an historical fashion, with what some believe was help fro our enemy Russia. Such mystery and intrigue.His family is in the white house and running his multinational business empire. He is vowed to the American people that he is working for them and plans "To Make America Great Again". This can only be done under his leadership, and those that oppose his ideas or idiots, spreaders of fake news, and are after revenge because of their loss.

I don't have to watch the evenings soaps anymore because now I get the same type of drama from watch CNN or FOX to stay up to date. Just like the daytime soaps, you can miss a few episodes and still catch up with the plot later. I hope that I don't end up watching something like Sole Survivor in real life, where a group of so called patriots, "drain the swap" by blowing up the capital and killing off all the players, and we have to restart government from scratch. Or that the real Jack Bauer comes out of retirement to fight off the next terrorist attack.