Campaigns Reduced to ClichesBy Suzanne Fields
Published Sept. 23, 2016
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http://www.jewishworldreview.com/cols/fields092316.php3#xLJSZ7ijWPo3Jxtb.99Every presidential campaign draws on familiar pop culture references to bring the candidates down to Earth. Critics use the references to illuminate the differences between voters of different generations.
We the people search for analogues in art, music, theater and even anthropology to find the telling insight that animates observations and interpretations of personality, if not policy. This is especially true in the lead-up to the first debate on Monday night, when voters will be confounded by the divergent styles of two unpopular candidates offering a clash of polarizing sensibilities.
Having thrown away all pretense of even-handedness, the organs of the big media will play out the candidates' different styles, as the highbrow vs. the lowbrow, the insider vs. the outsider, the university-educated elitist vs. the vulgar business genius. Their followers are the rich vs. the working stiffs. Add to these cultural divisions demographic distinctions ranging from feminists to lunch-bucket working men, from old folks to millennials. They live in the same country, but in different worlds....
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