They lose interest in the 'show' when the real world is crumbling around them
Wow! That's the end of the show, right? Oh hell no. Producers, writers, and lead characters lock arms and produce scandal after scandal,
white supremacy,
Russian collusion,, two
impeachment trials, a long list of
episodes to engage and excite the dwindling audience, to take out the rogue actor. But those who have left the theater no longer pay attention to the stagecraft, a slight problem.
So in 2020 the producers and writers insert a new segment, a landslide election that replaces President Trump with Joe Biden.
Per script, Biden immediately moves to save the world by cutting off US
fuel production forcing Americans into the Green New Deal. If these people can't drive, or heat their home because they can't afford oil or gas, they'll have to invest in an electric cars, solar panels, windmills.
New policies are issued at breakneck speed, mask mandates, vaccine mandates, censorship. Must pick up the pace, a mass shooting here, a war there, keep the story moving, keep the audience engaged.
Meanwhile yet another plot line is introduced, a societal epiphany. With a straight face actors say there's no real way to tell a man from a woman, body parts don't define us, we can be whoever or whatever we want to be.
Now for many this is a '
jump the shark' moment where the scene is so ridiculous the audience loses their ability to suspend disbelief, can no longer pretend the plot is really happening.
Yet others remain immersed in the story, accept the new dogma as truth.
But then a new real-world crisis threatens the entire production, inflation, recession. People can't afford groceries, gas for their cars, oil for home heating. They lose interest in the 'show' when the real world is crumbling around them.