Will American politics ever get over the hump of phrases and just think like Europeans do — freedom to choose?
a party? The Europeans in general have a multi-party system where several parties, not two, are constantly vying for election seats. We have only two and it is because of it, we are stuck with the biblical paradigm of the good vs. evil. Europeans are far more educated compared to Americans when it comes to voting. They have parties that express their platforms in a thick pamphlet that stack hundreds of pages and people who vote in these countries typically do their research.
American politics follows a completely differently train. Political elections downplay policies and instead invite the politcian’s personal life into the spotlight. The making and breaking of a career can all hang on a soundbite, the only pitch that uninformed voters will remember before forming their decisions of who would be the best leader. When partisanship runs especially high, soundbites from politicians are thrown around and ridicule over soundbites coming from the opposing propaganda machine become very commonplace. The politician on the other end, based on his/her soundbite and not record, is interpretted in so many expressible ways not divorced from prejudice in assigning a superficial meaning to a quote taken out of context. Example : Michelle Obama (a non-politician) saying that she was for the first time proud of America. While quotes taken from a favorite candidate is supposed to have literal meaning encompassing the understanding frustrations of the people. What I’m asking here is simple: Is it impossible to believe that politics here in this country would ever go over the hump of just thinking politics in terms of phrases from soundbites? Will sound reasoning along with research still make up the minority of opinions out there?
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