On the Media- The Power of "Rigged"

The idea of this year's election being rigged is an idea that's been thrown around quite often, especially with Trump. This podcast discusses the word rigged itself and how different politicians have used it. An interesting part of this podcast is when the speaker talked about how democracy and equity are not the same; equity meaning something is fair and impartial. To me, I feel as if people often don't differentiate the two, saying a democracy should be fair and impartial, but that's simply not the case.

To have a fair and impartial democracy would mean our politicians wouldn't use the word "rigged" at all. This podcast mentions the different interpretations of rigged. When it comes to Trump, he believes the election is rigged because of voter fraud and media collaboration with the Clinton Administration. Trump has also mentioned that minority groups only vote for democrats, so he believes there's the power of rigged there as well. For Clinton, the speaker in the podcast discusses that she believes political power goes to the rich and powerful. No matter whether I think either is true, I think the word rigged can be applied to almost every aspect of politics, but I don't necessarily believe everything in politics is rigged.