There is an important election in November, 08. Sift through the spin, imaginings, hypothetical lying, or just plain lying, and make an informed decision before you vote for the candidate of your choosing. Our politicians do not present anything in a straight forward manner. They often glorify or embellish facts so as to mask much of the harsh and probably painful truth. It is difficult to learn how much of the candidates words are imagination, hypothetical lying, or just plain lies. By the time this election takes place, there will have been approximately 1 billion dollars spent on the campaigns:(
Presidency for sale. "CHEAP"(!!)
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The sad thing, of course, is that this isn't the candidates' fault. How well would a politician do if she were always honest and forthcoming? Not very well at all. Honest, careful discussion sounds to swing voters (the majority of which are swing voters because they either have no strong, well-thought out beliefs or do not have more than 10 seconds at a time which they care to devote to thinking about politics) like uncertainty or waffling. Of course, it is these least informed voters who actually choose who wins, since the firm right- and left-wingers aren't in the air, so to speak.
The role of money in our elections is a somewhat different but equally troubling aspect. Since we allow our political campaigns to work in a more-or-less free-market manner, the right or wrong of an issue ends up being at least in competition with, if not secondary to, whether or not it can be supported by significant monetary interests.
We might wish that elections and politics were not subject to the same issues as business ethics, but the fact is that many of the same considerations apply, and for a simple reason: politics is big business, and business always has a (legitimate) market interest in being political.
What should be done about this? Where do we locate the problem here, and what direction do we take in trying to solve or, more realistically, mitigate this problem?
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