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[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago

There absolutely is. Parties encourage people to treat elections like a sport and identify with a "side." Corporate media play along with the horse race paradigm, rather than pushing back on this kind of framing that distracts from actual issues. (And heavens forbid we talk about conflicts of interest, especially when they cross party lines and are endemic to entire governments-- ruling and opposition parties alike.)

It's been increasingly normalized for vast swathes of the voting public to pay little to no attention what each party stands for now, and what they've done in the past. Media also fails to give fair attention to a variety of methods by which a given crisis could be tackled, since the interests of the corporate world tend not to be in line with the interest of the public.