Representative institutions no longer represent voters. Instead, they have been short-circuited, steadily corrupted by an institutionalized system of bribery that renders them responsive to powerful interest groups whose constituencies are the major corporations and wealthiest Americans. The courts, in turn, when they are not increasingly handmaidens of corporate power, are consistently deferential to the claims of national security. Elections have become heavily subsidized non-events that typically attract at best merely half of an electorate whose information about foreign and domestic politics is filtered through corporate-dominated media. Citizens are manipulated into a nervous state by the media’s reports of rampant crime and terrorist networks, by thinly veiled threats of the Attorney General and by their own fears about unemployment. What is crucially important here is not only the expansion of governmental power but the inevitable discrediting of constitutional limitations and institutional processes that discourages the citizenry and leaves them politically apathetic.

I selected this paragraph because it talks about how the media and campaigns manipulate voters. I totally agree that media plays an important part the more publicity you have the biggest chance to run the presidency. Nowadays, people barely listen or pay attention to what presidents on what they willing to offer or the plans they have to eliminates major problems in this country. Another important part that this article mentions is how the way we choose our president nowadays has being corrupted by wealthy Americans people. This is because representatives are being bribed and they are not longer representing the voters. In conclusion, everything basically is being control by wealthy Americans.