Our Political Systems conversion to made for Reality TV sit-com

Its being stated that this years “hold your nose over the choices” is the worse Presidential election in our county’s history.Not being a historian or having researched very early elections,like now out of favor,Andrew Jackson,or obscure Millard Fillmore, this may or may not be true.However what I do believe IS true is that conversion to a made for reality TV sit com is happening before our eyes and at our own behest.
Examine the two candidates.Hillary Clinton has a history as a US Senator and US Secretary of State and Donald Trump.Business man with no history of Public Office.Why is this even a contest??Ah lets examine the reality TV aspects.Hillary has a controversial history of being a enabler to a philandering husband and innuendos over fraud and coverups,never proven,and inaccuracies caught on tape and  interpreted as lying at the worse and confusion at the least.Not so good.Now to Mister Trump.His confusion over what he thinks he has seen and his inabilities to apologize when shown his errors along with his abuses to any and all critics verbally as well as a merchant for infighting to violence  urgings at rallies are comical at the least and tragic at the worse.So yes,its a hold your nose choice but what is the relevance to reality TV??
    Lets examine what reality TV is before we go to the influence on the elective process.Per you typical “Google”search

re·al·i·ty TV
noun
television programs in which real people are continuously filmed, designed to be entertaining rather than informative.

The key here is “to be entertaining rather than informative”.Now we can list many of these shows but I will list just a few with my own explanation of how its fits into the political discourse.First I must add a disclaimer,like that liberal comic Bill Maher,I do believes most americans these days are dumb and dumber.That however is a far broader and meaningful issue to discuss at a later date.Assuming that to be the truth for THIS discussion we can now go on to the reality TV aspects.
The earliest corruption was “Family Feud”,a quiz show bringing a group of family members to compete with another family in a contest to identify answers a studio audience had given to questions.Innocent and silly enough but it allowed you the viewer to believe this is what is “real” because people like you were doing it.
Next we go to “Survivor”a series about contestants from the new healthy “FIT”narcissist  generation who compete in a dangerous out door meet while”looking good”
Finally the current shows that show whatever your talents or knowledge or appearance there is a place for you on TV or at least to watch someone LIKE that.Think”Pawn brokers”,”Duck Dynasty”,”Here Comes Honey Boo Boo”to name just a few.So what does this mean.
      Historically after a lackluster 8 years in office,the next presidential election is usually a referendum for change or status quo.That would usually mean the out of power party candidate,in this case Trump,would have the advantage.However he has show,in a traditional way,he is unfit and thus it should be Hillary.But wait !! She just might be the worse”traditional candidate”ever !!! Here in lies my premise and thus the dumbing down of America dangers therein. Criminal possible candidate vs a possibly mentally deranged one?Reality TV has narrowly focused our attentions on what we want for ourselves and NOT the grater good.Wht not a rich guy with good looking kids and the ability to get married and “trade up”each time?After all isn’t that what we want as we sit on a couch watching TV with a beer in a neighborhood of others just like us OR we wished were?
OR those we watch are SO different we laugh and feel better about our own short comings that are not nearly so bad.Over time reality fades and the fantasies of TV take over.We begin to act and dress and talk like some while quoting others as if they we “teachers”.Scary !!!
     So when we get to a election that is ripe for change and the ruling party puts up a VERY flawed candidate,Hillary,the vast unhappy reality TV crowd leaps at the man who made”Your fired”a household saying,with joy !! After all its,”designed to be entertaining rather than informative”TV sit com/election and if Trump wins,the world as  we know it will be CANCELLED.