Politics has gone wrong. Is digital technology to blame?
This articles talks debates whether technology is to blame for politics going wrong. The writer describes politics going wrong as this year brexit was voted in and at the time this was written people strongly believed Donald Trump was going to be elected and now we know this has become a reality.
I disagree that the internet is to blame as i believe it to an extent strengthens democracy, when Clinton was first eletcted in 1992 the internet and mobile phones were a new invention and helped to expand democracy and promote clintons ideologies, aslo it meant things in congress could get done a lot quicker with email instead of signing everything by hand and recieving news this way. Moreover, the internet has allowed pressure groups like the 38degrees in the UK to hold the government to account outside of general elections which is important for democracy.
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