Jared Lively on Kellner

Kellner's critique of Habermas brings up several important points that are especially relative to situation of the state primaries going on right now for the upcoming presidential elections. I like when Kellner mentions Habermas' point about the tendency to vote for "private interests and opinion" instead of the greater good of reaching a societal consensus. I think that a lot of voters today tend to vote for their own private interests rather than what would benefit the society as a whole, and that isn't condusive to building cohesive communities.
Habermas supports "intraorginizational public spheres," and that's kind of what state primaries are. State primaries allow the democratic and republican parties to have discourse within themselves and decide their best candidates. However, once the front-runners are chosen by their respective parties, we run into problems with the corporate media, which Habermas disdains. The corporate media's coverage of only the democrat and republican front-runners (more or less) rules out the chance of any other candidate having any shot in the election. The corporate media's control of the elections, in essence, supports the concept that the democrat and republican parties should promote their most marketable candidate with the best shot at winning the election instead of the candidate with the best ideas to benefit the society as a whole.