Jon Stewart, Enemy of Democracy? wrong way round to ask the question
Jon Stewart, Enemy of Democracy?
Seemingly the voters, those that haven’t learned yet;) , get upset if you don’t join them in their illusion of inclusion. With no choice between the two main parties a statement guaranteed to piss off both sides of the Washington War party , is it really fair to blame the voters for the candidates they get? After all if they sucked , you wouldn’t vote for them. Wouldn’t that be more responsible than picking from the evil of two lessers and giving your approval to what essentially are two groups that believe that it’s their right, backed up with a lot of guns, to dictate whom you should marry, how you should school your kid and whom you have to pay nearly a half of your earnings to.
To test for a “Daily Effect,” Baumgartner and Morris showed video clips of coverage of the 2004 presidential candidates to one group of college students and campaign coverage from “The CBS Evening News” to another group. Then they measured the students’ attitudes toward politics, President Bush and the Democratic presidential nominee, Sen. John F. Kerry (Mass.).
To quote Bill Hicks, “gee How fucking scientific”
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