The role that money plays in the media has always disgusted me. The outcomes are minimal, and there is a sufficient lacking of cures in any world issues. Politics in the 2016 presidential election is nothing but an expensive, brainwashing puppet show.
So how is this different than any of the others? It’s all in the numbers. Candidates, parties, individuals are spending up to $10 billion, which is double the amount that Barack Obama and Mitt Romney spent. The media has misinterpreted some mirage that has people believing that financing doesn’t buy political influence, when the whole system may be completely rotten. It’s all about access, coverage and publicity. Nothing all that political at all, and when it comes to money, things are extremely dark. Dark money is social welfare organizations, that don’t reveal the true identity of the donors. Last election, there was $300 million in “dark money”, and this election, there is twice as much.
And what is the result of all this money being thrown around? Scandals. Not support, not answers, just lawsuits, leaks and inevitable news sources. When it comes to money and media, everyone is confused. Do we really even understand the technicality of what we hear on the news? Politics was once business-friendly governments, and lower taxes, and created the perfect association of capitalism and socialism. A new era of Keynesianism so to speak. Now we have celebrity politicians, scripts, intellectual nothingness, lacking party membership and the ghost of debt.
And the money just keeps flowing. Tragedies seem to continue, and more money is being thrown into another news special on Donald Trump. No presidential election has ever been so glorified, to the point that you can sit and watch a debate and still have no real consumption of what it is a candidate really stands for.
Mind boggling to think that all this money is being thrown around in a political play-pen while people in north America are still homeless, and there are 14 million vacant homes that no one can afford, or that people in Canada had their homes burnt to the ground and have yet to receive an international support system. The world really doesn’t need another TV special on the latest Trump scandal, or the email scandal, but some answers to why money never exists where it’s needed most would be nice.
