The election of a
president in a world where Business is the only game in town is nothing more
than a commodity for sale.
Call it “Democracy.”
But the election of a president isn’t anything like democracy.
Just like the
supermarket orange isn’t anything like the product of squeezed fresh oranges.
It’s a sale item.
And now that we’ve set aside the special counsel’s report on the current
president’s actions and inactions, we’ll be selling the idea of Democracy from
now until November 2020.
(After a brief
break, we’ve, of course, the pressing event of Midterms 2022.)
In Canada, a prime
minister calls an election and then for a relatively short period of time the
candidates for office campaign. Longest campaign in modern history: 78 days in
2015.
No, in the United
States, Democracy is Big Business. Put a total sales figure on the advertising
alone and the number would be enough to feed the world. (Or at least feed the
poor sufferers in Yemen, victims of the current genocide being carried out by
Saudi Arabia, with the help of their military enablers, the U.S. and the U.K.)
That fortune in spending
would almost be defensible if even a tiny portion of that revenue went to
genuinely educating the public about what the hell is going on.
Instead we get my
team versus your team. March Madness, soon to be a years-long event. In fact,
an event that has no end as long as those ad dollars keep pouring in like the
waters from the aquifers in blessed places like Cuddebackville, New York.
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