Current Affairs Essay

In addition, the election process should be held over an eight-week period, and every candidate should be compelled to answer real questions by real citizens and real reporters in real public forums-- not the phony public forums staged by politicians who give canned answers to their carefully screened sycophantic constituents or corporate-controlled media whores posing as legitimate journalists.

Then we would actually have free and fair elections based on ideas and the needs of individual citizens, not a two-party dominated grand Guignol based on corporate money, public relations, and attack ads. But don't expect this to happen any time soon. The Democrats and Republicans are not going to propose it; neither will the mainstream media nor the corporate lobbyists who contribute to political campaigns.

Ralph Nader and the Green Party have been doing everything in their power for years to bring this to the American public's attention. But you know how most Americans are. They don't trust Third Party candidates, nor take the time to research public issues, nor listen to alternative political viewpoints.

As a result, real campaign finance reform will remain a non-issue for the foreseeable future, the election process will continue to be a sucker's game where the interests of average Americans are ignored, and our political system will continue to be controlled by corporate lobbyists and special interest groups who hide behind the First Amendment as they skulk through the graveyard of broken dreams and discarded democratic ideals, laughing all the way.