I’ve been rewatching West Wing or rather doing a full watch through as I don’t think I made it through the show after the firing of its showrunner Aaron Sorkin.
It is a hard watch as themes like decorum, power, and bipartisanship are always at the forefront while they babble on about campaign finance reform and something called a budget surplus. Cue the Dowager Countess and “what is a weekend?” meme
It’s like watching a lost world where we still had positive outcomes and expectations from our government even as the same basic players and issues remain the same.
I suppose I’m in mourning for an era I lived through and benefited from and yet will never ever see again. How can I possibly get worked up over cute plots over gun control and prissy liberals insulting heartland conservatives when in 2026 it’s full on Robocop meets Mike Judge Idiocracy.
The best I can do today is make a Daria meets gun memes joke as cover for my grief and sadness. It’s a Sig Sad World out there.
