Glenn Greenwald: The lame rules for presidential debates: a perfect microcosm of US democracy

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“All views that reside outside the narrow confines of the two parties are rigidly excluded. Anyone who might challenge or subvert the two-party duopoly is rendered invisible. Lobbyists who enrich themselves by peddling their influence run everything behind the scenes. Corporations pay for the process, which they exploit and is then run to bolster rather than threaten their interests. The media’s role is to keep the discourse as restrictive and unthreatening as possible while peddling the delusion that it’s all vibrant and free and independent and unrestrained.  To understand the US political process, one can just look to how these sham debates are organized and how they function.”

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/oct/16/presidential-debate-issues

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