atheist
أعتقد أن الساحة الداخلية تلعب دورا كبيرا في حسم الصراع الانتخابي..قضايا التعليم والصحة والأمن الداخلي وغيرها تشغل الناخب الأمريكي أكثر من السياسة الخارجية..
نعم، ولكن هل يعرف الناخب الأميركي بالفعل ما ينتخب وكيف ينتخب؟
كل الشواهد تشير، كما يقول شاهد من أهلها (Dr. John Glad):
One percent of American citizens now own 40% of the nation’s wealth. In elections vested interests make electoral campaign contributions, parts of which are used for
polling the voters to learn what they want to hear, while the lion’s share is invested in advertising that is
as little based on logic as an ad for a soft drink. The resulting advertising presents a combination of what the pollsters discover and
what the propaganda specialists consider the populace will accept. To make matters worse, literally a handful of people now control most of the media, and there is no talk of applying antitrust legislation to stop even further amalgamations. And the system functions incredibly smoothly – exactly as intended. When the candidate is eventually elected, having outspent his opponent, he then goes on to do the bidding of those who paid the bill. Should the electoral results be in doubt, the candidate has merely to wrap himself in the flag while denouncing his opponents.
The result is an unbridgeable chasm of understanding between elites and the broad masses. A serious book published by a university press may have a print run of a few hundred copies, while a television show of only middling popularity will measure its viewership in the tens of millions, and Hollywood aspires to an audience of billions all over the world. Intellectuals are supposedly free to express their opinions (as least as long as they do not threaten the powers that be), but
informed opinion is irrelevant to the political process. لذلك: تعليم، صحة، أمن داخلي... الخ. نوع من الدعاية الانتخابية فقط لا غير، وبالواقع لا تقدم ولا تؤخر.
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