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Thats why quality of news coverage has gone to shit, and democracy is struggling. You pay peanuts, you get monkeys.
by ClumsyPilot 4y ago
Thats why quality of news coverage has gone to shit, and democracy is struggling.
You pay peanuts, you get monkeys.
- achenet 4y agoI blame television + social media favoring stupid, anger inducing soundbites over well thought out rhetoric. And Duverger's law [0] leading to a duopoly of two political parties who spend all their time bickering and scheming to get more power because they've decided politics is a football game where the goal is to score more than the other team and not a civic duty to run the country for the benefit of the people. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duverger%27s_law https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duverger%27s_law