Oh does anyone want to hear me drone on about politics at 12:52 AM? I thought so...
Between the media covering political events and candidates using the media it’s hard to tell how or who is to blame for making the elections more centralized on the candidates and less centralized on the issues. The media has contributed to this just as equally as the candidates, to get to know the candidates better the media provides a full profile, where they came from, what their childhood was like, what interest groups they are a part of, what religion, what college they went to. They have provided a platform for candidates to use to slash and bash each other to bits on the air in hopes that one may gain a couple more votes in the polls. The media seems to be a machine, one that sits back and watches as the drama unfolds only to let it continue until it gets too provocative or too harmful to handle.
This is not to say that candidates themselves have not taken it upon themselves to make the media into a tool for them to utilize in their campaign. Candidates are more than willing to share their views on hot button issues such as gay marriage, abortion and immigration and with that they provide where they have picked up these ideals too. Religions, though they all seem to believe in some figure of worship each seems to be different, clashing even, sometimes in a battle over who’s is better. Candidates use the media directly for this, to gain support from their own religion or interest group hoping that they are ideal enough for their stamp of approval. The candidates use the media to invite the public into their lives, into their homes in hopes that the American public may like what they see.
All of these ways contribute to centralized debates, campaigns, and elections, not centralized on the issues but on the candidate themselves, their whole life and how inspirational it is to the American public. Though it may seem natural after one thinks about this for a long period of time one may become sick of these campaigns, the ones that are no longer about what America was founded on but on what an individual looks, wants and feels like.
I felt you all needed to know. I hate political campaigns, period.
Alexa
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