Yobo's Digest
March 2000
Commentary
Has the political process left the control of the masses? I think so. For instance all during this primary season the talk wasn't about issues, not even about abortion or any other political topic. No, this time the theme was "campaign finance reform". This theme coming off the questions of impropriety over the 1996 Presidential campaign.
Day after day the media deluged us with how much each of the candidate sspent from their "war chest" on their particular campaign. Bush began the primaries with nearly $70 million dollars and spent 85% of it before Super Tuesday. Money he spent mostly on advertising. The other candidates spent equal amounts. Yet for all the spending, there seemed very little substance and a whole lot of "whistle blowing".
Well the point I 'm trying to make here is that the electoral process has become more corporate and out of the hands of the voter even more this year than ever before. You get the overwhelming feeling that "we're not in America anymore." The electoral process has become more and more determined on "Who has the money", which further translates "Who has the most money get the run of the country for a term".
To show you how shallow this has made the present campaign, Bush is running on a single premise. Its the "Lets end the Bill and Al show." Referring of course to the Clinton administration. Making Bush nothing more than a political puppet of the Republican Party, the hired "point man" to get the White House back. Gore is being protrayed as the stooge who the Democrats "have to" stay with (the only other choice was Bill Bradley), in order to keep the Clinton Party going.
So it would appear that we don't have candidates anymore. Instead we have "selected" pretenders to the throne, picked and groomed by some dark and shadowy political gestapo machine. Sure we get to vote, but we are given the choice to vote for.
"Outsiders" with real ideas, outside the "party line", are laughed out and out spent. The core of the parties control (not the voters) control the nomination process. We are moving more and more closer to a time that we are led blindly to the polls to vote for the hand picked candidate. Have you still got a copy of George Orwell's "1984"?
-Yobo
Past commentaries
March 20, 2000 -CyberWatch
March 27, 2000 - Melting Pot?
April 7, 2000 - Daylight Savings?