Opinion: Trump Is Selling Bibles – “It’s My Favorite Book.” Why You Should Totally Believe Him.

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The most recent polls have Trump and Biden in a dead heat for the presidency. Other surveys found many Americans would still vote for him even if convicted of crimes.

The former president was charged, indicted, and found guilty of various charges, fined, appealed; charged with other crimes, indicted, found guilty, and appealed again.

Fraud, sexual harassment, misuse of campaign funds (hush money on Daniel’s case), and others.

It doesn’t seem to matter what the charges are; in our current political world, none of this is real. It’s entertainment.

Politicians have been caught in lies and still voted for. Why: Because our democracy has become a Reality TV Show.

And everyone knows that Reality TV is not real, it’s scripted. People don’t really fall in love.

They don’t get kicked off an island and have to swim home. They leave peacefully in a boat or plane.

People don’t really believe what the Bachelor says, especially not to the women trying to wed him.

Deceptions are part of the contest. Like an obstacle course or catching their own food.

People don't focus on how factual Love After Lockup is or Bridezilla, they just want to laugh at the chaos and perhaps feel a little better about their own lives compared to what’s on TV.

So, when Trump says the Bible is his favorite book, we believe him.

Is he lying, who cares, it’s entertaining. It’s distracting and that’s what Reality TV is all about. Distracting us.

When we see reports about his trials and convictions; his massive fines, his appeals to the court, the lowering of his fines, the endless campaign rallies and collecting of donations, we don’t see injustice, that becomes a blur.

We see “video games” and alien worlds to defeat and mercenary camps to overrun.

There are some 212 million gamers in the US, we are used to seeing the world in terms of a video game.

Where life and reality begin to blur.

They merge to a point where lies, truth, and crimes become part of the storyline. Will she, won’t she, marry the Bachelor? The rest of it is just background sets and music.

And we keep watching it all, pick sides, and get angry when our side loses.

You can’t have a real game unless one side can win. Our Democracy Game is Dems vs. GOP. Blue versus Red. But in this game is there really a winner?