Maybe I should just continue endlessly posting societal questions that were answered thirty years ago by The Simpsons. It’s a rich vein to mine, honestly.

At any rate, here’s Spencer Pratt, a reality TV “actor”/producer who is almost my exact same age but who doesn’t appear to have ever had a job of any sort, running for mayor of Los Angeles, because why not?

“On the phone a few minutes later, Pratt sounds relaxed, candidly acknowledging that he doesn’t have an “answer to every question. That’s why I go around and I try to talk to people and hear what people’s issues are.” He’s a neophyte politician but seems to have a natural ease when talking with voters. “I don’t ever feel like I can get trapped because I don’t know the answer to something. I’ll tell somebody, ‘I don’t have the answer to that. I’ll look into it. I’ll get back to you.’”

We’ve done this. Not just the whole “elect the reality TV guy because we’re bored” thing, but more importantly, the “I am tired of dissatisfying answers, let’s get some satisfying ones” protest votes. There’s another line in that Post editorial where two voters agree that “at least he’s change”. Sure! Why not vote for a tree stump? The current mayor is not a tree stump! No mayor has EVER been a tree stump!

But don’t take my word for it. Listen to Springfield Sanitation Commissioner Ray Patterson:

I know we’re going to continue falling for this over and over again, forever, because that’s just what we do. But every once in a while I like to remind people that it is, technically, a choice we make.