Republican debate follows propaganda script: US writer
US Republican presidential candidates talk of differences but differences are hard to find, says American writer and activist Mickey Z.
Seven Republican presidential candidates participated in a debate hosted by Fox Business Network on Thursday night in North Charleston, South Carolina. The sixth GOP debate was filled with testy exchanges between the seven candidates on stage.
“At the most recent Republican debate, Marco Rubio accused Chris Christie of too often going along with Barack Obama’s allegedly liberal agenda. Of course, Christie took offense and went on to vehemently deny such charges,” said Mickey Z., the author of Occupy This Book and Occupy These Photos.
“What matters here is not which programs Rubio and Christie deem as ‘liberal.’ What matters is how such debates are framed; framed to maintain the white male capitalist status quo,” he told Press TV on Friday.
“If we were to take words like ‘liberal’ or ‘progressive’ seriously, Barack Obama would not be mentioned in the same breath. However, living under the yoke of relentless corporate media conditioning has us programmed to believe that the two major parties represent vastly different political agendas. This manufactured reality allows us to rest easy, secure in the knowledge that we dwell within the confines of a free country, a democracy…if you will,” he stated.
“The candidates play their pre-ordained roles by acting out what appear to be extremely different agendas. The general population sits rapt in the audience, utterly convinced that each and every election offers the opportunity to create change within the Home of the Brave. All the hard thinking has been done for us. We can just sit back and reap the rewards of being, well, an American,” the analyst noted.
“If we accept Obama as the epitome of liberal and, say, Rubio as the conservative poster boy, anything outside these frighteningly narrow parameters of debate is ignored by the media and therefore, ignored by the voting public. To accept these parameters is to accept powerlessness as the planet careens towards collapse with the US manning the controls,” he said.
“This election season, I have a suggestion: The next time someone tells you the US has a two-party system, demand a recount,” Mickey Z. concluded.
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