The Dysfunction of American Politics: How the Debasement of the American Citizenry has Facilitated Political Chaos

Dysfunction dramatically increased the function of the institution, but the political regime of the United States is still moving according to its original design: limiting government control beyond the basic protection of freedom. On the surface, the dysfunction of the American political system is unrelentingly due to the polarization of the political party. But according to James Madison, political factions are not necessarily bad. On the contrary he insisted that this is an essential and effective feature of a successfully formed government in the "Federal Party".

The arc of political imbalance in America is long and complicated. We can not analyze all the dynamics of domestic, world, culture, society, economy and politics that led to the expansion of this crisis. Therefore, the following are not all of the main factors affecting the collapse of the political unity of the United States, but are preliminary attempts to explain some. In the first half of the 20th century Americans repeatedly united to overcome the enormous difficulties of solving major domestic and international problems repeatedly. We destroyed industrial trust, overcome the economic and social destruction of the Great Depression, and defeated one of the most arbitrary tyrant in history.

Through their analysis, Porter and Geer discovered the structural causes of serious political dysfunction in our country. First, the US political system is not a healthy competitive market but a double "textbook paradigm" that leads to unhealthy competition. Regulations are then imposed in other industries, but the political industry has enacted its own rules. And perhaps the sharpest revelation is: us, ordinary American voters are not the result of customers. According to Porter-Gehl, the most harmful difference is "Because the participants themselves control the rules of competition, the political industry is different from most other industries.The true independent political There is no regulation. "

Just like their political influence. Princeton political scientists, in a study entitled "Testing American Political Theory: Elite, Interest Groups, and the Public Citizen", Princeton political scientists believe that the impact on the policy of the general American citizens will be given by the economic elite to the 90 th income It was judged that it can be ignored compared with the influence. . percent. In Cape Town, South Africa, the population increased 79% in 23 years, but dam reservoir increased by only 15%. The city where more than 4 million people live is currently within three months of "zero day". This day is the day of April 2018, Cape Town is expected to be a shortage of water.

Especially during the past few decades, the election politics of the United States has functioned at two levels. At the first basic level, politics is the means by which we improve (or aggravate) the material conditions of citizens. Obviously, this is a more important political aspect. This is politics of activists, organizers, volunteers, they are doing the job of winning and changing elections. Another level of politics is consumption of almost all other Americans for four years. This is a term derived from politics, that is professional wrestling, and it came from Kaifu. In short, Kayfabe is the sum of the code of conduct and rhetoric of norms agreed and maintained by participants to protect the necessary artificial reality of occupation. For most politicians, all public acts at least potentially serve Kaihabi.