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qallunat

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24. You have nailed it!

Wed Apr 15, 2020, 10:30 AM

Apr 2020

Your first line reflects one of the most serious problems I see in the way in which the media shapes political attitudes in North America:
"...because their attitude towards politics is fundamentally frivolous." The horse race model for political commentary, ignoring substantive analyses of policy, is a pernicious feature of political journalism in both your country and mine (Canada). It absolves the punditocracy from their responsibility to inform the puiblic of what's at stake during elections and reinforces the subtext that they are of no more consequence than beauty pageants. It fetishizes "electability" at the expense of providing the tools that voters need to see the arcs of policy choices that illuminate the directions in which the ruling class are attempting to steer our respective countries. There is no way to vote in line with one's values and vision of the society in which we want to live, if there is no context to the broader goals of our potential democratic representatives.

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