Businessmen and Power Brokers controlled political machines throughout the Northern states during the civil war. They maintained their sway over government with pools of immigrant voters in the cramped and crowded population centers of the region. The newspapers were influenced or owned by these powerful individuals and dictated whatever common thread benefited the desires of these elite.
Not much has changed to this day. The media disseminates whatever line is in the best interest of the power and business machine and the brokers manipulate the population centers and the voter pools.
The candidates for office often suffer from the political propaganda and sacrifice their ethics and principles in order to gain favor.
Bummer
Lincoln and Churchill addressed the results of ethical compromise;
“You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you cannot fool all of the people all of the time.”
Abraham Lincoln
“A politician needs the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month, and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn’t happen.”
Winston Churchill
