Daily Inspiration Quote by Shana Alexander

The bite of Shana Alexander's line is how little it cares about celebrity as a moral failing and how much it cares about the electorate as a system with weak antibodies. Movie stars running for office is treated as a symptom, not the disease. The real scandal is "easy to get elected" - a blunt indictment of a political culture that confuses visibility with qualification and treats public office like another role a familiar face can inhabit.

Alexander's repetition of "It should be difficult" reads like a civic demand masquerading as common sense. Difficulty, here, isn't elitism; it's friction. It's vetting, scrutiny, reputational risk, an expectation that candidates demonstrate competence under pressure rather than glide on charisma. The subtext is that democracy only works when it resists marketing. If elections function like popularity contests, then the medium (mass entertainment, mass media) becomes the message, and governance turns into a branch of show business.

The kicker is the second target: "millionaires, too". She's not just side-eyeing Hollywood; she's tracking power's shape-shifting. Celebrity and wealth are different routes to the same shortcut: access without apprenticeship, attention without accountability, influence without proof of public-mindedness. Written in the late-20th-century American context - when television politics and high-profile candidates were rewriting the rules - it lands as an early warning about the coming merger of campaign craft, money, and fame. Alexander's intent isn't to ban outsiders; it's to argue that a healthy republic should make everyone earn it.