The Modern American Political Landscape and One Tree Hill

The town of Tree Hill is the perfect, all-American town where everything revolves around scholastic basketball, crazy nannies, Pete Wentz and scholastic basketball. Also, scholastic basketball is very important. In that respect, it’s a lot like all small towns in America. Don’t each of us in the rural wilds of the United States live a similar life to those pretty youths that inhabit the Schwannverse? Accordingly, we can draw some parallels between our world and theirs.

Consider Nathan Scott - the favorite son, the lauded hero, the boy who will do anything in order to gain the approval and acceptance of his betters. If it weren’t for Nathan’s ability to score from the paint (because Nathan can raise his arms above his head), you might think I was describing John McCain. Right?

And don’t you think that Tree Hill’s vapid idiot Brooke Davis is a little like McCain’s Veep pick, Sarah Palin? You Betcha. Will this revelation presage the uncovering of a McCain/Palin sex tape? Oh God, I hope not.

Hey, doesn’t basketball star and fellow vapid idiot Lucas Scott love to play basketball, win hearts and minds, and wax moody and idealistic? Does he offer change we can believe in to the Tree Hill Ravens? You see where I’m going with this right? Hint: Barack Obama.

Where does that put everyone else? Well, evil fucking patriarch Dan Scott is George W. Bush, Skillz is Joe Biden, Nanny Carrie is The War On Terror, and Dan’s terminally estranged brother Keith? Well, he’s the economy.

Think about it, won’t you?

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