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Roseanne was only the symptom of a deeper sickness
Of course I’m thrilled Roseanne is off the air. But I’m even more thrilled by how upset I can only imagine this makes her Trump-loving fans. Just closing my eyes and picturing them screaming and shouting at the screen, throwing tantrums, throwing things at the wall, throwing themselves against the wall, eyes bulging and bloodshot, veins bursting out of their foreheads…
I mean, only the feeling of Christmas and goodwill towards normal folk can surpass that feeling of pure unadulterated joy I feel at this moment.
But this hardly solves the larger problem that Roseanne represents.
Most of us who were paying attention recognized the problem as soon as Roseanne was brought back to the airwaves by a struggling ABC primetime network. The fact that she was hired and promoted so heavily as she openly proclaimed her strong support for Trump and his policies — not to mention her long and tedious track record of borderline insanity flavored with a hefty dose of recurring nastiness — was a dead giveaway that ABC is in on the long con of trying to normalize Trump’s stubbornly and stunningly abnormal behavior.
Not to mention the fact that the corporate bean counters at ABC certainly earned their beans and a bonus bag when they calculated the vast amounts of money to be made by catering to the…
