Ben Affleck slams ‘snarky,’ ‘depressing’ political climate: ‘I think it would be an awful job’

Ben Affleck says running for public office “has no appeal” to him because he finds the political world “very depressing.”

The “Gone Girl” star, who plays a Los Angeles mayoral candidate in his new movie “Animals,” shot down talk of making a real-life jump from Hollywood to the campaign trail in an interview with Variety published Wednesday.

“I just think that’s enormously — I don’t know, man, that seems terrible,” Affleck replied when asked if he would ever consider a political bid.

“There’s a reason why political stories are often chosen as parables for moral compromise,” the 54-year-old Academy Award winner said.

“You really get thrust up into the contrast between the ideal version of us and how we should be in our lives and the way it is. It’s a very depressing world, in my opinion,” Affleck said.

“Tawdry,” he added, “And that has no appeal to me.”

Affleck went further into his disdain for politics in an interview with USA Today this week, saying, “On a personal level, I think it would be an awful job.”

“I think the way it’s constructed now is so geared around money and now even geared around like soundbites, and cruelties, and gotchas, and little snarky things that really have nothing to do with people’s lives whatsoever,” the performer said.

“It’s easier to get votes appealing to the worst in people than it is appealing to the best in them,” he said.

“There are lots of pressures that are constantly asking you to sacrifice your principles — and frankly, at this point I think too many — which is why it’s sort of a self-selecting job,” Affleck said.

“And we end up getting people with whom the electorate is perennially dissatisfied because if you get past the sort of party affiliation notions or the tribal notions and you just ask people broadly, ‘Hey, what do you think about the political world and how do you think it’s working?’ there’s a resounding kind of rejection from people, no matter who they may have voted for,” he said.

It’s not the first time that Affleck, who’s long stirred buzz of a possible political run, has expressed dissatisfaction with what’s happening in Washington.

“God, the political climate,” he said in 2016 . “There is little more that I find more depressing than the political climate these days.”