The Daily Show & The Dialogue of Execution
The absence of problem-solving in today’s Government comes from the inability of Congress or the President to achieve any form of balanced collaboration and conversation. When people and ideas are brought together for collective endeavors, the conversation needs to be complicated by divergent opinions and perspectives, meaningful dissent, and distinctive contributions. Only after this process can ideas be strengthened, placed in realistic and pragmatic terms…then executed.
Where does this balance actually happen today in our civil society?
The answer is pretty clear for most college students. Comedy Central’s The Daily Show.
In an age where unproductive and hyper-partisan talking points drown out the dialogue necessary for the incubation, innovation, and implementation of real policy ideas, The Daily Show continues to offer a forum for comprehensive debate on the problems America faces today.
In a recent interview with Bill Clinton, The Daily Show host John Stewart articulates how the current paralysis in Washington DC is rooted not by the lack of proposed solutions, but by the lack of depth of in how proposed solutions are presented to the American People.
The race-to-the-bottom competition over which party can offer the least substance to voters is becoming pathetically apparent to Stewart and his viewers around the country. The Daily Show’s uncanny ability to sift through the partisan garbage and generate substance in conversation may be the reason why so many of our respected leaders from Newt Gingerich to Bill Clinton to Mike Bloomberg choose to be guests on The Daily Show before going on the Sunday Morning Talk Shows. In a twist, the humorous model of presenting the news has become more serious than its traditional counterpart.
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President Clinton’s prescriptions for bringing down unemployment rapidly are “welfare capitalism” not radical laissez faire capitalism prescriptions, especially the one dealing with incenting employers to train in-house basically qualified applicants to fill job openings. This clash of ideologies is the root cause of the paralysis in Washington. Progressives want in-house training of American employees to fill openings. Conservatives do not want to spend the money and time on in-house training but want rather to go to India and China to fill these jobs. During Viet Nam and the early 90′s when the labor market in the U.S. was tight, employers regularly established in-house training programs to fill openings to the significant benefit of the entire economy. Thirty years of Right Wing conditioning of the people and the rise of the fallacious rational market theory taught in business schools and university economics departments have blinded the country to the efficacy of President Clinton’s “welfare capitalism” solutions, created the ideological gridlock in Washington, and created the mess in the country reflected in the high unemployment rate, high underemployment rate, high poverty rate, low economic growth rate, etc., etc., etc. The mess will continue until one or the other ideology prevails.