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our current political season? Regardless of which side of the political fence
you stand on, (being someone who straddles both sides), I have to agree with the
candidate who touts the media chooses our representatives in our rigged political system.
Having campaigned for public office and having to deal with the media, I discovered
firsthand how the media manipulates, you the voter, into voting for "their" candidate of choice. Have you asked yourself; why real people don’t run for
office? Because you won’t vote for them. When I ran for office, I ran as a “No
Party Affiliation” candidate, in a gerrymandered congressional district in
Florida. Since I had limited funds to advertise, the media felt they had
limited time to contact me, return phone calls or emails or report my comments
upon having had a two minute conversation with a reporter. Reading the
newspaper or listening to the TV and radio announce they had spoken with the “Party
Candidates” about a certain topic, and I was unavailable for comment, was a
lie. Having to deal with nasty emails and letters, phone calls, people taking
my garbage from the street side container is a just a few reasons why real
people don’t run for office and the media doesn’t want to report these kind of
activities. What the media wants to report, has nothing to do with what is
required from our representatives. They tell us; negative advertisements work.
What works is; the person accused has to respond to the negative ad, (as
directed by party leaders), and the money flows to defend a character attack.
As you watch the media circus; do you know what your candidate’s political
platform is? Does what they say in front of the camera, behind a radio
microphone or to the newspaper reporter match what their website says? Millions
of people have already voted for the candidate the media selected for them; are
you one of them? Did you really do any background investigation, check public
records for your candidate or did you just follow what the media reported? If
you haven’t performed your public duty and when you step into the voting booth
and ask yourself; who are these other candidates on the ballot, you are part of
the political media problem. We no longer elect a candidate to represent us, we
elect someone who will win. To be honest with you, I have fallen into the same
rut as you, many times and now I have to ask myself; is our nation winning or
losing because of the decisions we have made? It's time to pull the media ring from your nose.
