I'm a simple guy who likes and appreciates politics in plain English.
Some day I might even start a blog site and give it that simple name.
Oh. Wait.
Here's my "offered once and then let's move on" perspective on why Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders are, at this writing, considered the front runners for their respective party's nomination.
Arguably.
But, we won't waste time, energy or resources arguing. (read: being endlessly repetitive).
Here's what it comes down to.
Jane Lynch.
CBS has cancelled Angel From Hell , the Jane Lynch-Maggie Lawson comedy — and will yank it from its Thursday-night comedy bloc beginning this week, TVLine has confirmed.
A repeat of The Big Bang Theory will fill the 9:30/8:30c time slot, before 2 Broke Girls moves in beginning Feb. 18 — the day after Survivor’s new season reclaims Wednesday’s 8 o’clock hour.
After premiering last month to 8.1 million total viewers and a 1.6 demo rating, Angel From Hell took a tumble in Week 2, but then stabilized in the neighborhood of a 1.4 rating — two tenths below predecessor 2 Broke Girls’ average in the time slot. With DVR playback, the comedy grew 36 percent on average.
Jane Lynch is a world class comic talent with a long and, deservedly acclaimed, resume of accomplishment in the entertainment biz.
Do the Google and check her out if you're not a fan and/or hip to her.
The TV game of "ratings means revenue", though, has obviously not been played satisfactorily by the sitcom featuring Lynch as a zany, wacky, drunky guardian angel.
Personally, I would have thought given where the baseline IQ level of the viewing masses seems to hover these days, the show would have shot to number one in a heartbeat.
Previous indications, of course, being the phenomenal success of such Peabody Award deserving flatscreen personalities as Kim, Khloe, Kourtney, Mama June, Sugar Bear, Willie, Phil and/or all the other quack shots in the family.
My own premium channel prejudices notwithstanding, Angel From Hell just didn't give the key 18-49 year old advertising dollar devil its due.
So, as with our old friend Keyser Soze, like that...it's gone.
To be "replaced" by "2 Broke Girls."
Another sitcom that, rest assured and/or bet the farm, has never required any exertion to watch save for an enjoyment of, and appreciation for, 23 minutes of millennial humor which, for those unaware, consists primarily (oh, what the hell, completely) of setups and punchlines pretty much exclusively drawn from the manual labeled "sexual and/or scatological".
T&A and/or f***ing and/or fart jokes, for those whose libraries lack a thesaurus.
Which brings us back to Trump and Sanders.
And their new found place at the top of their respective piles.
In a campaign year where the term "pile" has new, and multiple, meanings.
And the once only analysis I promised you at the outset.
When people (read: the American voters in the year 2016) are sufficiently unhappy with what they see week in/week out, they turn away from it in droves.
The key term there, of course, being sufficiently unhappy and not just unhappy. Each and every election cycle creates the illusion of voter unhappiness but "throw the bums out" is, as a rule, only hot air from voters spewed in response to the hot air spewed by the applicable bums.
With a documented "incumbent re-election" rate of 90% in this country, "throw the bums out" has about as much real meaning as, say, "new and improved."
This time around, though, this particular election year, 2016, has, at least for now, all the appearances of the appearance of an honest to God, we ain't kiddin' around "sufficiently unhappy" electorate.
And when people really decide that they really don't like what they don't like they really want it gone.
Viewers don't like Angel From Hell.
So it's got to go.
Voters don't like the status quo.
So it's got to go. (By the way, for clarity sake, the term "status quo" here refers to any and all candidates who have even a whiff of the "same old, same old" about them)
At first, the long term quality and/or amount of improvement expected from whatever is available as replacement isn't so much a priority concern as is just getting rid of that which doesn't work.
Clearly viewers don't like Angel From Hell.
Jane Lynch? Outta there.
In her place...
Really? "2 Broke Girls"?
Clearly voters don't like the status quo.
Hillary, Jeb, Ted, Marco, Chris?
So far, outta there.
In their place?
Really?
Donald?
Bernie?
Sometimes people assume, without thinking about it too much, that different and better are the same thing.
Sometimes they are.
And sometimes they're not.
Replacing "Angel from Hell" with "2 Broke Girls" puts a check in the "not" column.
As to Trump and Sanders?
That remains to be seen.
Stay tuned.
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