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Okay... Your original statement was that the political body (parties) was necessary to mobilize voters. So relying on political parties to relay information and encourage voter participation and activism is any less biased?!? They're a large part of the reason for the bias in the first place!
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While I do agree with that. I just think that people should be responsible for getting their own information on a candidate, then if they choose to digest hugely biased info and vote off of that more power to them. I guess we can agree that when you are trying to win a competition of any kind, especially a political office, you'll put your own spin on anything. But people are lazy and rely on campaign commericals.
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Personally, I would love to see the US government charter a BBC-esque national news agency, but that would never work out (or at least never work out well) because neither party wants objective truth.
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Ditto. The news of the government whoring out the news media makes me sick.
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2) regulate in what sense?
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If we can't have political parties there would have to be some sort of way to regulate people's organization into a political body, then enforce those laws with some kind of punishment.
I think we can both agree on SOME kind of political party reform, but the problems run deeper than that. In order to reform the political party system something would have to be changed on an idealogical level in America. You should really read Dahl's book I mention in an earlier post, it's an eye opening experience. Not to mention the source for 2/3 of my rhetoric in this thread.
