Stern did that bit in 2008, but it was a lot better with video, and more convincing when the people interviewed could understand English. Regardless, he could probably get these same results from the majority of the crowd at the DNC.

Politics and failed policy do not matter anymore nearly as much as celebrity status. If Michael Jackson's ghost was running with Che Ghevara as his VP, he would win in a landslide. Idiocracy is not so much a comedy about the future as it is a documentary about current events.