It’s interesting to note that the Canadian Media never called the NDP “dead” en masse when it sat at 20% in the polls. Sure, plenty of people wish for their political rivals to disappear. Lots of them cheered when the Progressive Conservatives went poof. Funny thing though, when a tree falls, you just don’t know where it will land and what sort of long term, unforeseen damage will result. Down went the PCs, up came Stephen Harper’s Republican-Inspired New Conservative Party. Then everyone started lamenting the old PCs, wishing they were back. Now the Media seems to be conducting a PSYOPS campaign on the Canadian public, working overtime to convince them that a 2 party political system is inevitable. And why is this a good thing? Why would we want a 2 party system divided between the right and the left, leaving nothing but a barren wasteland in the middle? Surely the irony is not lost on anyone that the NDP only exists because we’ve had that kind of system in the past and Canadians were not happy with it. That’s why the Green Party of Canada came into existence. Canadians want more choice in their politics, not less.
So why is the Canadian Media so hell bent on killing the Liberal Party? Like Stephen Harper, they get their ideas South of the border. In the US, where the 2 party system reigns supreme, they call th1s… The Political-Industrial Complex By JP Sottile, Reader Supported News And the news media is, perhaps, the key cog in that grinding machine. The more contentious the election, the more dichotomous the debate and the more heated the rhetoric … the more enriching the whole process becomes to the seedy squatters currently occupying the Fourth Estate. By generating more heat than light, the news media generates more revenue than facts. How? By filling all those nifty commercial breaks with lucrative political advertising.
Media professionals and advertising agencies and consultants all make money off of “us versus them.” They all make money off of the status quo. So do the ad buyers and local station executives and owners. And, as national and statewide campaigns become more and more expensive, the cable networks and broadcasting’s big four – ABC, CBS, NBC and FOX – all rake in the cash. Your donations are more likely to end up in the pocket of some cigar-chomping chump than in the needy hands of some eager, motivated canvasser.
When you wonder why nothing gets done, or why problems only seem to get worse amidst the din of hyperbole and bickering, think of it all as a daily drama. It is a soap opera. And why were they called “soap operas?” Because those quickly-crafted melodramas were designed to hold your attention just long enough to sell you soap. Dish soap and laundry detergent and hand-repairing cleansers. That’s the point of all the drama and tension. It sells soap. And that’s the point of the Political-Industrial Complex. All that drama and hyperbole … it sells soap. For the media professionals who sell it to us all, it’s money in the bank. Literally.
