Why electorates the world over are simply revolting

YOU only have to listen to Hillary Clinton rubbishing Obama’s statement about the unemployed, dispossessed and generally miserable tending to get consolation from their churches and their guns, to understand that you never, ever insult the voters. They are infinitely wise, thoughtful and responsible. OK? OK.

Now that we’ve got that out of the way, let’s get to the reality, which is that voters vote for the oddest, least predictable reasons, including the desire to stick it to the present incumbents, regardless of the consequences. Regardless of the possibility that the replacements could be worse. This is the Jesse “The Body” Ventura Syndrome: where the electorate suddenly gets so fed up that it would elect a gormless, if entertaining, ex-wrestler to govern an American state, even though the electorate KNOWS — as they did with Ventura — that if he had two brain cells, which was questionable, they were the kind of brain cells applicable to low comedy rather than state government.

Politicians and political advisors hate the Jesse “The Body” Ventura Syndrome.