So looks like Donald Trump is set to become the Republican nominee. He's single-handedly exposed the modern democratic process to be a complete and utter farce.

Not that we didn't already know, intellectually, that it was a farce; with the media covering elections as if they were sporting events or reality shows, campaigns being run not on rational debate about issues but on fundamentals of corporate marketing and advertising (focus group testing, branding, use of catchphrases and logos), and all the most critically important parts of the US government, like the Federal Reserve, completely under the control of unaccountable technocrats anyways, precisely because they knew something like this might happen to our democracy one day. But it took Donald Trump to fully hammer it in that you can win an American Presidential election, to get into the most powerful office in the entire world, just by throwing grade-school insults at your opponents, bragging about how rich you are, and making up rambling, emotionally charged monologues without a shred of factual content.

Not to mention with no experience in government, no predictability, and no guarantee that he even actually believes, or will attempt make good on, anything that he says. No matter what happens from now on, the office of the Presidency and the American political system have been completely degraded and discredited.