![]() ![]() From corporate control of the infrastructure of elections, to the creation of mass bases of support out of whole cloth, the candidates, as well as the system itself, cannot be trusted to be genuine. The country that ceaselessly trumpets democratic values and transparency practices neither when it comes to its own elections.Īs Americans go to the polls in Democratic and Republican primaries, it is critical to once again highlight the myriad ways that democracy in the United States is, like most other things, a commodity to be bought and sold. US elections, despite all the media hype and endless rhetoric about “democracy in action,” are in fact little more than manufactured political theater. “ Social media has become the playground of the elite, the terrain upon which their manipulation and social engineering takes root. This article previously appeared in Russia Today. Hillary Clinton’s Support Base as Bogus as US Democracy by Eric Draitser Election results and the causes of war and economic crises are also mainly bogus. ![]() As some very perceptive men have written, the rich rule largely by “manufactured consent.” It turns out that much of Hillary Clinton’s consenting base of support is fictional: “the majority of her Twitter fans, and indeed her social media following in general, are completely fake.” The same was true of Barack Obama’s twitter following: 53 percent fake accounts. ![]()
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