Do we have a celebrity worship issue in our society? Many will say yes, but can a guy who is loved by many, who appears to be a Fiscal Conservative/Social Liberal thrive in bridging the political divide while trying to forgive him for being the “tooth fairy” – PB/TK
The Rock’s Presidential ‘Campaign’ Shows We’ve Learned Nothing – By Ryan Teague Beckwith / May 19, 2017
He’s a celebrity with no history of serving in elected office, a huge social media following and a project to promote. After musing that he might run for president, he’s gotten profiles in both the entertainment and political press and a softball interview from Jimmy Fallon. This weekend, he’ll be on “Saturday Night Live.”
No, this isn’t Donald Trump in 2015—or any number of years before then, for that matter. It’s The Rock in 2017. And it shows that the media has learned nothing from how it handled the real estate mogul’s past flirtations with politics
To be fair, Dwayne Johnson meets the qualifications for becoming president under the Constitution: He’s 45 and was born in California.
On the political side of the ledger, he’s a fresh face—often a bonus—who spoke at the 2000 Republican national convention, attended the Democratic convention that same year and is now a registered independent. He gives good interviews, was named the Sexiest Man Alive in 2016 and has an above-average Q score (the celebrity equivalent to political approval ratings). He might very well make a decent candidate.
But Johnson isn’t being treated as a potential candidate for the leader of the free world. He’s being treated as a celebrity. And that means that he’s getting tons of free publicity for his theoretical campaign—benefiting him personally—without being asked any of the tough questions about what he would actually do if elected.
Continue to time.com article: http://time.com/4785931/rock-dwayne-johnson-president/?xid=homepage
