Posted on 11/05/2013 8:02:48 PM PST by Sporke
We live in an era of political celebrity. Our media create faux royal families for dumbbells to fawn over. This started with Kennedy’s Camelot (bing it) and Obama is the latest and most egregious example of puffery by so-called journalists.
Those politicians favored by media are exalted and shown in flattering ways. Those not favored get the opposite treatment.
This is a calculated subversion of how the free press is supposed to operate.
Go ahead and laugh. I weep. Our Republic is as dead as the Roman Republic.
Name recognition has a lot to do with the political family dynasty. Actually you don’t necessarily have to be a member of that family. Just about anyone with the name Brown seems to be able to get elected in Ohio.
Then there are the advantages of the good ole boy connections that a successful politician can give to his children.
Then there is the simple fact that the children of a politician grow up in the political environment; it become second nature, it is what is talked about at the dinner table. It is the family business, the children are basically living as political squires to their knighted parents.
You can’t nail it down to just one thing. But for the low information voters it is simply the name that they here all the time. It is familiar.
You forgot wives. I’d add, ESPECIALLY wives!
It amazes me whenever the wife of a politician gets elected to anything. Besides marriage, what qualifies a wife to hold office?
It’s not just in the USA. Think of Corazon Aquino in the Philippines and Winnie Mandela in South Africa.
Looks and personality are certainly important. I’ve read studies have shown that good looking, tall men tend to be more successful.
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