Idiocracy

Idiocracy: The Documentary We’re Living In (When’s the Sequel Coming?)

Remember Idiocracy, that "comedy" from 2006 that was supposed to be a ridiculous satire about a future where humanity gets progressively dumber until a literal idiot is running the world? Yeah, turns out it wasn’t a comedy. It was a documentary. And guess what? The sequel? It’s not coming to theaters—it’s happening right outside your window. Welcome to Idiocracy 2: Presidential Elections Won’t Save You, where the plot isn’t some distant dystopia—it’s just… today.

When Is Idiocracy 2 Coming Out? Oh, Wait, It Already Is!

We all thought Idiocracy was just Mike Judge giving us a glimpse into a far-off future where anti-intellectualism reigns supreme and people water their crops with energy drinks. Well, guess what? We’re already watering our national discourse with Red Bull and political caffeine highs. You don’t need a time machine to travel 500 years into the future to see the collapse of civilization. You can just turn on the news.

Every time there's an election, someone inevitably asks, “When’s Idiocracy 2 coming out?” The answer is: it’s live-streaming in 4K right now. It’s an interactive experience where we all play the role of increasingly disillusioned citizens trying to navigate a system that feels like it’s been designed by the same people who gave us the Ow, My Balls! TV show from the movie.

But here’s the real kicker: none of this is going to solve the problem. Why? Because, as it turns out, changing presidents won’t fix what We, the people; broke back in 1973. Yeah, remember when Nixon "temporarily" suspended the convertibility of the dollar into gold? Well, guess what? It’s 2024, and that suspension is still going strong. Apparently, "temporary" in government-speak means "forever". Who knew?

1973: The Year We Said “Nah” to Gold and “Yeah” to Infinite Debt

Let's rewind to 1973, when America told the gold standard, “It’s not you, it’s me,” and broke up with it. Nixon said it was just a "temporary" measure, like those diets where you swear you'll only eat carbs again after you’ve lost five pounds. And yet here we are, 50 years later, still carb-loading the economy with more debt and inflation than a Black Friday sale on credit cards. The convertibility of dollars into gold was suspended temporarily, and yet, the only thing more permanent than that "temporary" suspension is the never-ending marathon of election cycles promising to fix the American economy.

Fast forward to today: we’ve now stacked over $35 trillion in national debt. That’s trillion with a "T." At this point, calling it “debt” feels like an understatement. It’s more like a cosmic black hole of IOUs that even Stephen Hawking couldn’t explain. But don't worry, every presidential candidate is going to tell you that they have the solution to fix it! Spoiler alert: they don’t.

The “Hard Reset” Solution: Would It Even Work?

So what’s the grand plan for dealing with this towering mountain of debt? Well, if you ask the economists who still have a pulse, they’ll tell you the only way out might be a “hard reset.” But what does that even mean? Does the U.S. economy just blue-screen like an old Windows PC, and then we reboot it? Will it ask us if we want to restart in safe mode? Nobody seems to know, but hey, we can try pressing CTRL+ALT+DELETE and see if that helps.

The thing is, this "hard reset" idea sounds like something straight out of the Idiocracy playbook. Just wipe everything clean, hope for the best, and cross your fingers that someone smarter than President Camacho is standing by with a solution. Except in real life, there’s no guarantee that resetting the economy wouldn’t just land us in the exact same mess again—because let’s be real, the way things are going, we’d probably just hit the reset button and go back to debating whether or not the stock market should be watered with Gatorade.

We, The People: Breaking Promises Since 1973

So, how did we get here? Well, turns out the problem isn’t just our elected leaders. It’s us—we, the people. You know, the same people who stopped converting dollars into gold and instead converted it into debt, bad ideas, and hopes that someone else would clean up the mess. We were promised back in 1973 that this whole gold thing would be "suspended temporarily." Well, it's 2024 now, and that suspension has been holding up longer than my New Year's resolution to hit the gym.

Presidents come and go, but the one thing that’s remained consistent is the inability of anyone—politicians or citizens alike—to deliver on those promises of economic salvation. Instead, we’ve just dug ourselves deeper into the hole. At this point, we don’t even know where the gold is, let alone how to convert our dollars back into it. And why bother? It’s probably just sitting there, lonely and useless, while the Fed prints more money and adds to our debt pile like it’s going out of style.

What’s Next? We’re “Not Sure” It’s Gonna Work

Here we are, staring down the barrel of 2024, with $35 trillion in debt, no gold standard, and no realistic plan to fix the economy. And what’s the best idea anyone can come up with? A hard reset that we’re “not sure” will even work. It’s like trying to fix a leaking boat by throwing buckets of water overboard, hoping it magically stops filling up. Maybe we can get a Kickstarter going for the U.S. economy? I hear crowdfunding works sometimes. Oh wait it's already exists and you don't get to choose. It's called Taxation.

But here’s the thing: deep down, we all know this cycle isn’t going to stop anytime soon. We’ve got elections to look forward to, more promises about how the economy will be saved, and more excuses when it inevitably doesn’t get better. And you know what? We’ll keep tuning in, just like we did with Idiocracy, waiting for that moment when we’re finally saved by someone, anyone, who has a better idea than watering the crops with energy drinks.

So when’s Idiocracy 2 coming out? Oh, right—it’s already here. And we’re all the extras in this twisted sequel, pretending like we’re not already living in the punchline.