Rojecki and Politics: "These People are Out of their Minds"

Just this past semester, I had the privilege of taking Andrew Rojecki’s framing seminar class, in which he discusses many of the issues that he discusses in his presentation. Andrew Rojecki discusses what he calls “politics of insecurity” in which a new wave of political discourse is taking place. Rojecki discusses that shortly after 9/11, and the failures of the Bush Administration, the economy began to blunder, consumers and citizens became scared of the economic crisis, and globalization had increased massively. With all these factors taking place Political discourse changed, in which, as Andrew Rojecki States “there is a disconnect between politics and the economy, there was an absence of solutions, Politian’s began to have ‘no prisoner attitudes, and ideology vs. solution became key competitors.” What Rojecki means by ideology vs. solution is that politicians are choosing their ideology’s, whether it’s big government/no government or pro-choice/ pro-life, to neglect making solutions in regards to the economy. His presentation is highly potent today with the upcoming senate and presidential elections. People are becoming panicked because nothing has been done in the past four years (that is of substantial importance) to better the economy, thus they are becoming more and more disapproving of the Obama Administration.

I recently wrote a paper about the decline of the materialistic myth, which is a deeply rooted Republican philosophy. In my paper I discussed how the Republican was in such decline that they have become so desperate that they are doing everything possible to build up their parties cause. Though the party is doing exactly that, my paper was proven wrong because I believe the Republican Party is actually rising again.  The Republicans were so successful in blocking every measure to pass a bill to create jobs and/or to better the economy and were able to blind citizens from this fact, they have increased their number of voters by the masses, as we saw in the Wisconsin Governor’s race, where the conservative  Governor Walker held his seat. Rojecki also points out that Fox news increased by 50 points in viewership, which is also a sign of such a switch.

 The rise in the Tea party, the media’s reroute to conservative viewpoints has changed the tides of politics because of the immense fear and doubt that people have for our Country. Presidential Nominee Mitt Romney has completely flipped his political views from moderately conservative to die hard conservative in order to completely disassociate himself that could be seen in the slightest way a democratic view. He has even overtly lied about his position on topics like health care and gay rights, just to fit the staunch conservative mode. As a diehard democrat, I am becoming more and more worried of what is to come in our politics. Little is getting done and, in my personal opinion, if the Republicans take office, both in the Senate and the Presidency, I believe that it will continue. Andrew Rojecki put it perfectly “… these people are out of their minds.”