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Can we call it a campaign ? (Score:1)
Otherwise it seems it will be as usual in France
The worst is that it's true for each party !
(I can give example, if asked)
It sometimes makes me sick to hear them complaining about the people's lack of
Re:Can we call it a campaign ? (Score:2)
As I said in my previous entry on the subject, campaigns aren't where politics happen. Never, not in any country that I know. To a certain extent, this can be considered "logical". The goal of the campaign is to win the elections, and then the politics happen (or not ;-)
I totally agree that this is not optimal, but in the past having genuine public debates has proven disastrous as any well-developed idea is broken by the simplest demagogy. One thing that I find a pity is that the programs are avail
-- Robin Berjon [berjon.com]
It's precisely what I don't like... (Score:1)
The goal of the campaign is to win the elections, and then the politics happen (or not
Sorry but no, Call me an idealist but I thought it should be a moment when everybody would present/share/compare his Ideas to make the things better.
Now every people involved in politic find it normal to see it ONLY as a race to win (Should I underline that the reach for power total
Re:It's precisely what I don't like... (Score:1)
Sorry but no, Call me an idealist but I thought it should be a moment when everybody would present/share/compare his Ideas to make the things better.
Well, autarch, this is one place where I absolutely agree with you. Democracy fails in the current American election system, because Democracy (in America) is supposed to be where the people decide how the country should be governed. And that is not what happens.
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Re:It's precisely what I don't like... (Score:2)
I don't know if that could help one way or another, but there's a law in France that guarantees that all candidates have equal access to televised speech. Such laws are hard to evaluate and put into practice, but overall I think it helps. Those rules are possible because the french legal system differentiates between free speech and free press, and puts the former above the latter. I'm not sure how that would map into the american approach to free speech, which is notoriously different.
There are also severe limitations on campaign financing (limitations that are still young though, and certainly could use some tuning).
PS: I don't know if it was a typo or a thinko, but it's not autarch talking there ;)
-- Robin Berjon [berjon.com]
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Re:It's precisely what I don't like... (Score:1)
It was a read-o! Yow!