US 2026: The Stupidest, Most Unserious Election Season Of Our Lifetimes

You of course know how this November’s election is being couched by the zeitgeist …

“The most important election of our lifetime.”

You know this? Because it’s extruded by nigh everyone in the zeitgeist. And because it’s how every election has been couched — since at least 1805. Evergreen verbiage vomited up to help rile up the people who think elections actually matter.

I was provided some intellectual relief by the number of Web search results I received pointing out the banality of that sentence. I will admit: More people are in on the joke than I had thought.

I am not here to add to that tally. I am instead going to accurately identify 2026’s festivities: The stupidest, most unserious election of our lifetimes.

2026 is stupider than 2024. Which is stupider than 2022. Which … Presidential or off-year? Doesn’t matter to how much stupider each successive election gets.

Elections are always conducted on a slate of often fraudulent and irrelevant “problems.” So as to divert our attention entirely away from our actual problems.

So each successive election gets stupider. Because our perpetually neglected problems — grow larger and worse. Our yet again neglecting them this election — renders this one the stupidest. Until we run out of elections.

Our actual problems are quite easy to identify. Which is why more and more hundreds of billions of dollars are spent every election — in an attempt to divert our attention.

In this “off-year” election? Election spending is projected to be record-breaking in its voluminousness. Yet you could consume every second of campaign nonsense produced by these record dollars and hear just about nothing about any of the very real problems we face.

Thankfully, there is one very real problem getting the election attention it deserves. Accidentally and backwards — but attention nevertheless.

What I’ll call Artificial Intelligence (AI)-Plus: AI, data centers, surveillance cameras, etc — have received nigh zero scrutiny from our elected officials. But is getting it in droves from the voting public.

This is one of those very few, very fun instances where the people are so overwhelming — they force the elected officials to pretend to care. It’s been enjoyable to observe.

But here are several very real problems — about which Election 2026 has very little to say…

President Donald Trump’s Iran war has strip mined the global energy system. Which has inevitably strip mined the global economy. It will take many years to get back to pre-war normalcy. That’s a real and serious problem.