Kamala Harris had a host of celebrity endorsements throughout her ill-fated campaign. Taylor Swift, Megan Thee Stallion, Bruce Springsteen, George Clooney, Billie Eilish, Cardi B, Ariana Grande, Lizzo, Mark Hamill, Lebron James, Charli XCX and Beyonce were among the Beautiful People singing the Vice President’s praises. It didn’t work, and pundits are wondering whether the age of celebrity endorsements is dead.
A better question is why celebrities are valued for political endorsements in the first place? They can speak for the rarefied world of wealth and fame, but do they speak for the rest of us? As Fox News reported, during a panel discussion at an Italian Film Festival, Sharon Stone groused about voters who chose Donald Trump. “We have to stop and think about who we choose for government,” Stone said. “And if, in fact, we are actually choosing our government or if the government is choosing itself.
” Would someone please explain to Stone how democracy works? She went on: “My country is in the midst of adolescence. Adolescence is very arrogant. Adolescence thinks it knows everything.
Adolescence is naive and ignorant and arrogant. And we are in our ignorant, arrogant adolescence.” Was she speaking of Hollywood? Stone places herself on the Better Than Trump Voters pedestal in part because she jets off to places like Italy to pick up film awards.
“So, Americans who don’t travel, who 80% don’t have a passport, who are uneducated, are in their extraordinar.
