Is a presidential election or some kind of festival?

Question

This really is not a critisism but the elections in the USA must cost millions and seems to be more of a stage show than any thing else. flashing lights, balloons, side shows, bands, films and music. It gets people overly emotional and blinded by the real reason for it all. Think of the good all that money could do else where. All you need is a pair of ears to listen and a brain to weigh up your choices.

Answer 1

It's just an excuse to have a good drinking party and collect millions of dollars from the lobbyists.

Answer 2

The election are for real but the conventions no longer serve any real purpose. Thy use to  pick the candidate  but now that is done by primaries and they are just some kind of festival.

Answer 3

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Answer 4

The DNC convention is nothing more than a modern day woodstock, driven by emotion and lacking substance...

Answer 5

Yes it is a waste of money. I would love to have elections like in the old days where there was a candidate and a stage and they spoke. So there would be no pomp and circumstance to take attention away from the candidate stances- that is what is the important part.  

Answer 6

Unfortunately most Americans dont pay attention to anything that isnt big and loud and sensational.  So the ears and brains you refer to dont matter to the political process if politics cant complete with whatever the dumb reality TV show is at the moment or the game.