President Joe Biden is, simply, the human embodiment of Avatar 2.
How did President Obama's bumbling sidekick, America's dense but loveable uncle end up taking the White House with the most energetic voting tide in modern history? How did such a bungling noodle of an executive oversee the greatest Democrat midterm success of HIS ancient lifetime? What does Biden have that cult-of-personalities like Trump or charismatic fireballs like Obama, Clinton, and Reagan didn't have?
Well, I can now answer that question with another question:
How did James Cameron's passion project that absolutely no one asked for, a film best described as 'perfectly fine,' end up becoming the biggest box-office smash of 2022? How did a rehash of a long-forgotten 2009 flash-in-the-pan become a sweeping global success and one of the top-grossing movies in history? What did Avatar: The Way of Water have that kept people in seats despite that fact that I don't know a single person who saw it more than once or discussed its plot or cinematography more than three minutes?
These questions answer each other in a circular line of reasoning and, somewhere in the middle of that circle, there rests a damp, flavorless slice of irresistible Wonder Bread that proves the eternal magnetism of mediocrity.