The Political Process
In a political setting, people transfer their individual political power to their representatives to form sovereignty. The representatives then constitute a government at the helms of affairs, using the state instruments to control the political system in society. There are procedures involved in the power transfer, and each stage of this is known as a political process. However, there are different schools of thoughts on what constitutes a proper political process. Individual elector, politicians, and sometimes, political parties form their political ideologies based on the perspective that best suits their narrative of the right political process. From different countries, political parties, and leaders, we have witnessed different political processes, and one movie that perfectly depicts the public’s opinion of a political process is the 1992 American political comedy movie, The Distinguished Gentleman.
Written by Martin Kaplan and Jonathan Reynolds, and directed by Jonathan Lynn. The film starred, among others, the famous American comedian, Eddie Murphy, who played the character, Thomas Jefferson Johnson, a con man from Florida who got into the political scene with a criminal mindset, and rode on the popularity of a dead former congressman with the same name, Jeff Johnson. Thomas Jefferson capitalized on the voters’ naiveté to get votes. His campaign lacked substance, as the core basis of his movement was the slogan “The name you know.” Nevertheless, he still got massive support from the people, won the election, and soon made his way to Washington D.C. With his criminal mindset, Johnson, a member of the most powerful committee in the Congress, the Committee on Power, realized he could sell his votes as a congressman. Johnson continued in his conman attitude in the chamber full of many other corrupt congressmen like himself and engaged in several shading deals. Although Johnson had a change of heart along the line, however, the movies’ public view of the political process can be drawn from the plots and the storyline of the movie.
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Critical Analysis: The Distinguished Gentlemen. Politics and Films Database Honors 495: American Politics, American Cinema. https://blogs.longwood.edu/politicsandfilm/legislative/the-distinguished-gentleman/
Inclusive Political Processes: Democratic Governance and Peacebuilding. United Nations Development Programmes. http://www.undp.org/content/undp/en/home/democratic-governance-and-peacebuilding/inclusive-political-processes.html
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