The Public Is Divided About Abstract Democracy

In an hour last week the MR Council hosted two presentations about the midterm election one on the media spend presented by ADImpact CEO Kyle Roberts and the other on the mood of the nation by top pollsters Peter Hart and Jeffrey Horwitt Founder and Partner of Hart Research respectivelyKyle who has made ADImpact the leading BI company in the political field showed that both parties are each spending about 45 billion for the midterms with most of it in television specifically spot TVPeter and Jeffrey presented a comprehensive definitive analysis of the polarity which they show to be widening and how each issue is affected In the slide below you can see that Americans place personal money worries above preserving democracy as issues affecting whom they are going to vote for The most troubling stat on the slide is that only about 20 of nonDemocrats consider the democracy to be one of the two most important issues and even among Democrats only 38 consider the democracy to be one of the top two issues How can it be that besides Democrats four out of five Americans don39t consider democracy to be one of the two most important issuesThe public must be thinking pretty abstractly about democracy I thought seeing this slide They39re not imagining what it would be like to live in a place that could turn out to be very like Russia and ChinaWhy Democracy is Worth SavingI have always thought that all Americans are inspired by the Noble Experiment the United States of America putting into practice the ancient idea of a social compact for protection of individual rights and collaborative selfgovernance The alternative methods of running a country appeared to be obviously wrong and bad going as far back in history as we can go Too much power in the hands of too few Largely successful bullies Rarely successful unitersAdmittedly the ones who took over were really good at doing their homework and for millennia the common person went along with it because the alternative of overthrowing it and then having to set up something ourselves always seemed too dauntingThen a group of courageous geniuses decided to finally do something about it like the French Revolution but with more intensive forethought and the integration of more philosophers39 ideas Doing deep homework the way the world39s takeover artists always have excelled throughout history This became our heritage Checks and balances designed to keep humming a complex machine answering to so many different viewpoints How could we not all be proud of it and want to keep it going and getting better all the time and helping not forcing others to benefit by emulating our ways until the whole world can live as oneamp8230I always thought that dream drove the heart of every AmericanI never imagined that the essence of what made us United could be politicized and identified as partisanI am dumbfounded watching the party that has democracy as its name can39t seem to make the issue seem as vital as it obviously is despite the overwhelming powers of media and in the case of just this midterm election 45 billion dollars39 worth of air time being invested by that partyWhat is a republic By definition the people elect representatives who run things therefore since the ultimate source of power is the people it is a democracy specifically a type known as a representative democracy The USA is both those things and both of those things spring from democracy the notion that the people should get together and set up a system to govern themselves So why should democracy become a supposedly divisive issue Has the very meaning of the word been so obscured by all the noise in our minds and lives that it39s just another meaningless abstractionWould it be an abstraction if you found that you were in trouble with the government because someone told them about something you did How abstract would it be if you were having a loving dinner with your family and the political police kicked in the door If you noticed that late night comedians were no longer making jokes about politicians How would you like being conscripted and sent to fight a suicidal war against people you admire Or have one of your kids conscripted Would it be abstract to be told how many kids to have How abstract would it be to not be able to say things expressing your feelings without worry about getting in trouble What if you had to play down your spiritual beliefs If you are in any way a minority or already underprivileged it is going to be much worse for youThis is what life is like in an autocracy where too much power is in the hands of too few people We see it every day in the news in most countries in the world Until only a few short years ago our own ways were a beacon of hope and determination to billions of people and then we pricked it like a bubble by our behavior suddenly becoming as lewd and indefensible as everywhere else It39s not too late to restore ourselves and be stronger for our fallContent creators and sponsors everywhere ought to be creating content continuously to remind us of how good democracy is and how bad is the sole alternative autocracy You are spending 9 billion between the two parties for the midterms almost all in television an image medium make with the images All those billions will be wasted depending on abstract buzzwords to do anything except further unconstructively inflame the polarized cores and leave the middle in confusion Both parties believe in democracy and if that is not true the Noble Experiment is over and if that importance of democracy doesn39t get proven by the ads we see the ads are just more poison driving us apart into two abstract dreamworldsClick the social buttons to share this content with your friends and colleaguesThe opinions and points of view expressed in this content are exclusively the views of the author andor subjects and do not necessarily represent the views of MediaVillagecomMyersBizNet Inc management or associated writers

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