Website review: Rendering public opinion irrelevant...
mjwerx discovered this in Politics
•6 reviews since Jul 20, 2008
politics, israel, middle-east
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yobaba rated 3 weeks ago- From the page: "There are all sorts of reasons why our presidential elections center on personality-based sideshows. Those gossipy matters are easier for our slothful, vapid media stars to digest and spout. They require very few resources to cover. The campaign consultants who run national political campaigns are experts in P.R. strategies for packaging personalities and indifferent to policy debates, etc. etc. But one principal reason is that so many of the Government's most consequential actions are concealed behind a wall of secrecy and thus not subject to public debate. Meanwhile, those policies which are publicly disclosed are kept off-limits from any real debate and, even when they are debated, public opinion is almost completely marginalized in favor of the minority elite consensus (see, for instance, the endless Iraq war even in the face of long-standing, overwhelming support for its end). That remarkable dynamic of debate-suppression is most conspicuous -- and most urgent -- when the policies favored by the political establishment are ones that are vigorously rejected by the citizenry. Thus we have the extraordinary fact that a policy that has long been favored by the vast majority of Americans -- even-handedness in the Israel-Palestinian conflict -- is one that no mainstream American politician of any national significance can espouse without triggering an immediate end to their political career. That discrepancy is a rather potent commentary on how our democracy functions." Also a reason the anti-war movement is dead in the water ...
- Mostly-Cloudy rated 7 weeks ago
- Cries of wolf (antisemitism) don't help your cause, but I don't think it's help that is being sought. Merely intimidation.
- Speedoman rated 7 weeks ago
- The United States government has been a huge financial backer of the Palestinian Authority. Enough with the antisemitism.
- DickBeldin rated 7 weeks ago
- The dominant elite knows that polarizing views is the path to domination of the underclasses. It will not tolerate tolerance.
- sundog23 rated 7 weeks ago
- From the page: "It's pretty extraordinary that in a democracy, the political elite is able to render completely off-limits a view that the vast majority of Americans support. They actually render majority-held views unspeakable and then remove the issue entirely from what is debated."
- gardsmyg rated 7 weeks ago
- A very smart analysis of what I've always known/suspected.
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