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You know that i got. To. Welcome everybody to watching the hawks i am tyrone been through and joining me today is Award Winning journalist chris hedges to talk about the how our political leaders are spending so much money just to get themselves elected and the other battle fronts on the war in the port thank you so much for joining me lowers i accordingly the federal Elections Commission total federal Election Fund raising was approximately 2000000000 in just the 1st half of 2019 and we havent even started the primaries yet what do those numbers tell you about the state of our federal election spending at this point chris its more about what it says about the state of politics what its what benjamin demat called junk politic. If you look closely at how this money is spent it is not about the dissemination of ideas its about the dissemination of emotions about manufactured political personalities. About making people confuse knowledge with how they are made to feel and i think whats so
The primaries yet what do those numbers tell you about the state of our federal election spending over support groups its more about what it says about the state of politics what its what benjamin demat called junk politics if you look closely at how this money is spent it is not about the dissemination of ideas its about the dissemination of emotions about manufactured political personalities. About making people confuse knowledge with how they are made to feel and i think whats so interesting about the 2016 election is that trump for all of his deficiencies is a least good at that Reality Television show in a way that jeb bush or Hillary Clinton is not. And so it is about conforming to a particular model that is anti political anti thought and and really corrosive to. Politics itself and it affects the media so c. N. N. Wheres this money going its going to Networks Like c. N. N. Who perpetuate the. Kind of moral and intellectual deterioration masquerading as politics because they tur