Senate accepts 'Godfather' and 'Idiocracy' poll as clear mandate for its current legislative agenda

The legislative embrace of these two vastly disparate texts suggests a ruling class that has entirely bypassed the civic idealism of Frank Capra’s canonical Mr. Smith Goes to Washington; equally ignored by our elected officials is the avant-garde structuralism of Michael Snow’s obscure 1967 experimental film Wavelength, an endurance test which, one must begrudgingly remind the layman, consists merely of a 45-minute camera zoom across a sparsely furnished New York loft; instead, lawmakers have found their true north in a cinematic universe where the highest form of statecraft is either depositing a severed horse head in a rival's bed or an ex-pro wrestler presiding over a collapsing agricultural sector.

For the modern senator, identifying with Don Corleone's extralegal syndicate has become something of a love language, a necessary aesthetic adaptation for surviving the endless demands of contemporary donor relations. Conversely, the embrace of Idiocracy functions as a vital institutional respite for a legislative body utterly exhausted by the pretense of literacy. It was perhaps inevitable that a government entirely beholden to the algorithm would eventually discard all nuance, seeking instead the moral clarity of Paul Blart: Mall Cop, a work that, while completely absent from the polling data, perfectly bridges the gap between the Corleone family's territorial dominion and the brain-dead consumerism of the modern American retail plaza.