A couple of years ago, Robert Kaiser sat down with Jana Edelmann, and wrote a research type book over Italian politics....going back over the decades, and basically stating a position staked out by various Italian political strategists.....that you'd go and maintain a continual crisis in the public view, to ensure public 'power'.
It's an interesting topic, and political philosophy. To accomplish this....you need not only the political system to deliver, but the national news media, and in these modern times....social media.
Week after week....month after month....year after year, you run crisis after crisis....to ensure the public is always focused and hyped-up against something or demanding such-and-such resolution to repair a terrible 'woe' or 'wrong'. Once television and radio arrived, this type of crisis-politics became a simple task.
You can find it in the UK, the US, France, Germany, and virtually every single western nation.
In fact, it's reach a level where people aren't really that charmed or fascinated with crisis agendas, and some of society have started to suggest crisis-candidates (like Trump, or Boris Johnson) to come in and really churn up the heat on the crisis business.
What if the general public starts to construct it's own crisis situations....outside of the general model currently used? That's an interesting question, with no real answer.
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