{"id":61504,"date":"2024-11-22T10:39:51","date_gmt":"2024-11-22T09:39:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/?p=61504"},"modified":"2024-11-22T13:00:39","modified_gmt":"2024-11-22T12:00:39","slug":"postmortem-the-us-campaign-and-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/postmortem-the-us-campaign-and-election\/","title":{"rendered":"Postmortem\u2014the US Campaign and Election"},"content":{"rendered":"The attempt to understand the US campaign and election for president has become a spectator sport with deep undertones and serious divisions. The process is fascinating, and offers a distinct view on the public atmosphere, individual psyches, and the power of media.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIn this election year, with clear political polarities already in place, the fight for votes seemed to be a battle for a mythical middle space. It was, in some ways, a contest between freedom from government and freedom through government. This is a hard choice when both are valid depending on context, but such nuance was lost in the fray. One might say that the campaigns themselves were an exercise in free enterprise. Billions of dollars were expended to influence the fundamental tenet of democracy: one person, one vote<div class=\"leaky_paywall_message_wrap\"><div id=\"leaky_paywall_message\">Would you like to carry on reading? <a href=\"\/en\/subscribe\/\">Get to know us for 1.-<\/a>. If you are already a subscriber, <a href=\"#\" class=\"modal-tr\" data-type=\"latl\">please log-in<\/a> to continue reading.<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The attempt to understand the US campaign and election for president has become a spectator sport with deep undertones and serious divisions. The process is fascinating, and offers a distinct view on the public atmosphere, individual psyches, and the power of media. In this election year, with clear political polarities already in place, the fight for votes seemed to be a battle for a mythical middle space. It was, in some ways, a contest between freedom from government and freedom [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10452,"featured_media":61360,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9115,8815],"tags":[11583,11585,8824],"class_list":["post-61504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-consciousness","category-world-situation","tag-ausgabe-46-2024-en","tag-english-issue-47-2024","tag-spotlights"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61504","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10452"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61504"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61504\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}