Amy Goodman and associates interviewed film-maker Michael Moore on the evening of November 3, about the 2010 and 2012 elections, and other related topics. Listen at this link. The segment is 20 minutes long. Thanks to Nancy Hankster for the link. Moore thinks there is a fair chance that there will be four strong presidential candidates in the 2012 election. Also, he talks about the almost complete lack of public discussion about U.S. involvement in foreign wars, during the recent political campaign. That is in the last eight minutes of the segment.
Four strong candidates? So a repeat of 1912? How nostalgic…
How soon before Moore spends some of his $$$ millions on court cases and/or petitions to get P.R. and REAL Democracy into the U.S.A. ???
Do NOT hold your breathe waiting for Moore to do such spending.
Always lots of Moore rabble rousing — but NOT knowing what in Hell the real problem is — i.e. ANTI-Democracy minority rule gerrymanders in the U.S.A.
Moore mentioned as examples of 4-way presidential races the elections of 1860 and 1948.
I tend to be cautious about believing everything that celebrity-people on the far political left and right say about anything.
At least in the elections that I paid the most attention to, i.e. Minnesota and the Dakotas, the winning candidates tended to focus on vague reference to the founding fathers, a pledge to budget the budget and live within our means and lots of other vague statements.
I did not see any real discussion of foreign policy, even from the federal candidates. Their are a lot of important and serious policy issues that for one reason or another do not get much attention in the major media outlets or by the major candidates.
Although, the ‘major-minor party’ in Minnesota, the Independence Party, seemed to have little interest in elections beyond the Governorship and many of their other candidates were hardly a part of the political center.
I suspect a large part of it is press coverage and which candidates get it and which do not. I can understand that probably needs to some reasonable standards, given limited resources, but I get the sense that many people in the major media outlets really do not like other parties or view them as some sort of novelty item on a slow news day.
The official midterm 2010 Election story on the major media outlets seemed content to frame it about Tea Party vs. Republicans or vs. Democrats and, when all else fails, focus on the hoarse race.