Kathleen Hall Jamieson wrote a book called "Dirty Politics: Deception, Distraction, and Democracy" in 1992. A lot has changed. And the politics have become dirtier. But, learning to become a spectator of this "Game" we can sit back and analyze what a candidate truly has to offer.  This episode is for you to become better informed of strategy and why it matters. We take a look at Jamieson's ideas and apply them to how we can look at politics during our 2020 election. 

In this episode I sound like an old woman who should be saying, "Get off my lawn!" My point in this podcast is to point out that social media is supposed to connect us, yet why don't we feel more connected?  Face-to-face communication matters! Can't we make that the new social craze of this new decade? I'm not saying to ditch social media in 2020--I'm saying, lets make it a more healthy habit than what we did in the 2010s. We can do better! We ARE better! Let's look up from the screen with 2020 vision to say--Yes! World, come on let's do this. Unfortunately, it's not going to happen if you're always looking down.  Let's start connecting again, but that requires you to put away the screen and look at each other in the eyes--and while you're at it--smile. 

Who ARE These People? First Impressions of the LARGE Democratic Party: Part 5 Cory Booker and Andrew Yang Celebrity vs. the unknown candidate. We, the mass audience, conjure up big names. We create big names out of people in pseudo-events. In this episode I take a look at celebrity and how Trump got into office.

Then I examine Senator Cory Booker, who interacts with the celebrity crowd quite often, and unknown businessman, Andrew Yang.  Yang is unique. Booker is a career politician. In fact, I have no idea what Booker stands for other than he tweets a lot about policy, yet has no platform statement on his web site. I was disappointed to say the least. 

Trademark vs. Unique. Which one would you consider?