What We Just Went Through Wasn’t an Election. It Was a Hostage Situation. - Surprisingly Decent Guest Op-Ed in the NYT
What We Just Went Through Wasn’t an Election. It Was a Hostage Situation. - Surprisingly Decent Guest Op-Ed in the NYT
Choice quote from the Article:
For the better part of a decade, American discourse has been consumed by emergency politics: a collective insistence that we are teetering on the knife’s edge of collapse, an anxiety that both parties were all too happy to exploit in order to hold their voters captive. This year that impulse reached its apotheosis.
What we just went through was not an election; it was a hostage situation. Our major parties represent the interests of streaming magnates, the arms industry, oil barons, Bitcoin ghouls and Big Tobacco, often without even pretending to heed the needs of voters. A political system like that is fundamentally broken.
A poll from this spring found that about half of voters 30 or younger believe that it doesn’t matter who wins elections. Describing the burgeoning nihilism of this generation, one pollster told Semafor, “Young voters do not look at our politics and see any good guys. They see a dying empire led by bad people.”
“Young voters do not look at our politics and see any good guys. They see a dying empire led by bad people.”
I mean where’s the lie?
I’m pretty sure I’ve seen that guy on democracy now, or maybe American prestige. From those exposures, he seems to have good takes.
Damn good for a new york crimes article. I suppose it is a guest writer though.
This year that impulse reached its apotheosis.
Got to agree. It's not an election it's mass hysteria at this point.