Slum and Spectacle
Slum and Spectacle Electoral politics in the U.S. and the potential midterm Senate fix. Good Citizen The evolution of American political candidates. The only thing slummier and more detestable in the U.S. than the sidewalks of Philadelphia or City Council of Seattle or the deductive reasoning of The View hosts is the spectacle of never-ending electoral politics. As soon as one election cycle ends, the next one begins. Perhaps not on your television, but behind the closed ballroom doors of five-star hotels at black-tie fundraisers and $25k-a-plate pay-to-play corporate sector politico whore-a-thons. Like every other industry in the U.S., electoral politics is all about greed and hoarding as much money as possible while inventing an industry of “jobs” that attracts more functionary and inept consultants and advisors than the financial services industry. It’s become another corporate-state money laundering operation while attention snat