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Originally posted by Cynthetiq
Last time I looked there wasn't just 2 political parties. There are two major parties and plenty of other parties that you are free to choose from...when I go to vote I see on the ballot a number of different parties besides Democrat and Republican. Perhaps you've never bothered to vote, read the ballot, or even maybe you live on foreign soil and don't know much more than what the media feeds you.
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I believe the word I used was
controlling. When was the last time a third party candidate became President? Has a party other than the Democrats or Republicans ever controlled Congress in the last 100 years? I sometimes find little difference between the two, and any other candidate, for that matter. I have
never missed the opportunity to vote.
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Originally posted by Cynthetiq
Parallelling that to media is folly since within the party system there are plenty of other party choices. Note the word CHOICES as it means you have a choice, doesn't mean that the candidate will win, but there is a CHOICE. Now as one of my editorial cartoons pointed out the media giants that do control the media outlets, can endorse one particular candidate giving an impression that no other candidate exists or matters.
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You're right that parallelling the two is folly. The media is so much more important than our government. Comparing the choices of alternate political parties to local access on the cable system is so unfair to local access viewers. In the 50's and 60's we had 3 major T.V. networks and most areas had one major local newspaper. We've come a long way since then with respect to information sources. Most media sources are market driven and the market
will sort them out. I do have a CHOICE, because I can turn the T.V. off and search elsewhere for my information. I don't trust the media now to tell me the truth, why would deregulation make any difference?