Filipino here, I’m curious how american politics got this, for lack of a better word, wild?
don’t get me wrong, my country is far from better, but over here, but the closest we have to MTG is probably Cynthia Villar or some other overly-vocal conservative oligarch in the senate, but they’d never pull stunts like this over here.
Coverage of politics became commodified and sensationalized in the name of ratings and advertising dollars. This form of competition has lead to the news becoming more of a form of entertainment than anything informative.
At the same time, voter apathy drives politicians to search for new ways to create interest, promote themselves, and generate a following.
This promotes more and more sensational behavior, which is further played up by the media, which raises the bar for the kind of things a representative from a flyover red state hardly anyone cares about has to do to maintain a presence on the national stage.
Repeat that cycle a few times and now congress is looking at Hunter Biden’s nudes.
I would suggest ‘Amusing Ourselves to Death’ by Neil Postman for further reading.
Filipino here, I’m curious how american politics got this, for lack of a better word, wild?
don’t get me wrong, my country is far from better, but over here, but the closest we have to MTG is probably Cynthia Villar or some other overly-vocal conservative oligarch in the senate, but they’d never pull stunts like this over here.
Coverage of politics became commodified and sensationalized in the name of ratings and advertising dollars. This form of competition has lead to the news becoming more of a form of entertainment than anything informative.
At the same time, voter apathy drives politicians to search for new ways to create interest, promote themselves, and generate a following.
This promotes more and more sensational behavior, which is further played up by the media, which raises the bar for the kind of things a representative from a flyover red state hardly anyone cares about has to do to maintain a presence on the national stage.
Repeat that cycle a few times and now congress is looking at Hunter Biden’s nudes.
I would suggest ‘Amusing Ourselves to Death’ by Neil Postman for further reading.