fromThe Nation
1 week agoRobert Redford Sounded the Alarm About Our Corrupted Politics Over 50 Years Ago
A television commercial is a way of selling a product. A candidate's bid for votes should be a higher order of expression...with moral implications for the kind of people we are...and the kind we want to become. But, increasingly, candidates are merging the two...selling themselves like an underarm deodorant... in commercials just long enough to pound in some mindless slogan...that cheapens candidate... and voter alike,
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