IF POLITICAL CANDIDATES were prohibited from purchasing advertising in america, how would people find out about them? the old fashioned way, that's how. one handshake at a time...
of course, we the government could step in and pass a law requiring all media to donate time and space equally to all candidates. but let's not. the less government, the better. just one law, to cover it all: "the purchase of political advertising is prohibited".
how elegant! how intelligent! how simple! what the media in america needs is more direct feedback from customers. then, the executives wouldn't have to guess what we want; they would know.
it might just barely be possible that the american people don't want quite as much gratuitous, mindless, seductive violence and sex as our corporate masters seem to think, and, indeed, it just might be that we the people are a bit more intelligent than previously thought, and might like a bit more meaningful, intellectual programming on TV..maybe...
the american people are perfectly capable of telling the media how much advertising they want from which candidates. Direct Democracy in action!
OUR current system of purchasing political power and influence is of benefit only to the very wealthy. it harms the rest of us by buying and owning our supposed democracy, and turning it into an oligarchial plutocracy.
"If the people becom einattentive to the affairs of government, the legislators and magistrates will divide society into two classes: wolves, and sheep."
thomas jefferson would probably agree that this is exactly what is happening now.
Bb
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