vrijdag 2 november 2012

De Amerikaanse Democratie?


The Election as a Marketing Spectacle

By Michael Meurer, Truthout | Op-Ed
NEV CAMPAIGN ADS 1 mainA campaign advertisement for Mitt Romney, the Republican presidential candidate, plays in the lobby of KSNV, the NBC station, in Las Vegas, October 12, 2012. (Photo: Isaac Brekken / The New York Times)Mitt Romney and Barack Obama currently spend about as much on TV ads each week as the total cost of France's 2012 national election.
As advertising propaganda, the $6 billion, two-year media spectacle of a presidential contest is the biggest Hollywood epic of them all. This electoral blockbuster is intended to act as overwhelming proof to the world and the domestic electorate that US democracy is still the most vital and high-stakes political system in the world.
In a nation of rampant consumerism, it is the ultimate form of conspicuous consumption. Yet the louder, more deafening and more costly this election bonanza becomes, the further it drifts from its democratic moorings.
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En toch gaan volgens prognoses ruim 90 miljoen Amerikaanse kiesgerechtigden niet stemmen, tussen de 40 en 50 procent! Dit is al bijna een halve eeuw het geval. Hoeveel miljarden de rijke donoren ook aan de Democratische en Republikeinse verkiezingscampagnes schenken, bijna de helft van de burgers gelooft er niet meer in het systeem dat de NAVO, onder aanvoering van de Amerikanen, wereldwijd aan iedereen wil opleggen, zo nodig met massaal geweld. Maar deze informatie krijgt u niet van de Amerika 'deskundigen.' Het past niet in de propaganda.

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