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"I see a mismatch between what most people in Canada are worried about and the challenges that we face. Politics reflects this. Democracy is alive and well by focusing on the concerns of the majority. Media, similarly, is very democratic — shining a spotlight where people want to look."

What do you mean by "politics reflect this" and "media is very democratic"? My understanding is that what is available in terms of our choices in mainstream capital P politics (party, policy, and platform diversity) in the West as well as our choices of media and other consumables are controlled by the suppliers. Capitalist economists claim that demand informs supply but thats not the case at all in practice. Suppliers (capitalists) and their captured politicians determine the range of what is available for us to consume at every turn. Thats why voting with your wallet doesn't work very well to change systems, and why voting for the range of available political platforms and candidates doesnt work very well to change systems and thats why mainstream capitalist economists and politicians tell us that those things do work. I don't think thst socialist economic theorists claim that consumers determine what is produced by capitalists. What do you think?

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