Is this going to continue to be Murdoch’s America ?
The danger is that Trump will capture so much of the public’s attention that he will appear to be the more dominant and stronger candidate, and Biden will be left with so little attention that he appears to be the more submissive and weaker of the two. If Trump dominates the battle of attention, Biden will effectively disappear.
Source: How Trump Is Exploiting Our Scarcest Resource | The Smirking Chimp
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Either way, to have genuine representative democracy, there first needs to be a truly democratic electoral system for the citizenry. The electoral system is a large part of the illusion masquerading as real democracy. And, of course, many voters get to wait in long, bad-weather lineups to participate.
While the First Past The Post ballot [FPTP] may qualify, though barely at that, as democratic within the democracy spectrum, it is the proportionally representative system thus governance that’s truly representative.
In any event, an American president who, quite unlike Trump, seriously tried implementing truly humane, progressive policies — notably universal single-payer healthcare, a significant reduction in greenhouse-gas emissions, military spending, a genuine anti-war effort, and increasing the minimum wage while also reigning in Wall Street abuse/corruption [etcetera] — would likely be assassinated.
Then again, according to ‘Calamity’ Jane Bodine — a fictional retired political consultant hired by an unpopular politician to help him win the Bolivian presidential election — in the film Our Brand Is Crisis: “If voting changed anything [in favor of the weak/poor/disenfranchised] they’d have made it illegal.”
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