Lesson XXVIII: Vocabulary in Context

Exercise: 2.4.1. Answer the Following Questions 1. What are two major political parties in the United States? 2. What symbolizes the Republican Party? 3. What symbolizes the Democratic Party? 4. What are some of the other parties? 5. Are the conservatives in the Republican or Democratic Party? 6. Who do people usually vote for? 2.5. PRIMARY, CAMPAIGN, etc. Situation: Professor Jones calls on a student. Prof. Jones: Introduce yourself if you please. A student: Fedor, a student from Russia. How does a president get elected? Prof. Jones: There are several steps: PRIMARY elections, the national convention, the CAMPAIGN and the POLLS. First, the person must prove that the voters prefer him to others in his party by winning some primary elections. Then, he must get a MAJORITY of DELEGATES at his party’s national convention to select him as their candidate. The next step is a nationwide campaign of the hopeful president for getting support of the majority of voters to win the elections. Exercise: 2.5.1. Answer the Following Questions 1. How many steps are there for someone to get elected as a president? 2. What must he prove in primary election? 3. Having won the primary election, what must the presidential candidate get then? 4. What is the next step? 2.6. BIPARTISAN, etc. Ali: Does a newly elected president put into practice everything he or she promises during the presidential campaign? Prof. Jones: Of course not. Real politics is apparently created somewhere else but at the president’s office. That’s why the policy of the US undergoes more or less cosmetic changes in time. The political system has been set up to protect the interest of some powerful individuals and organizations excluded from the authority of democratic institutions. Those individuals and organizations are labeled as DEEP STATE. It is an unelected power establishment exercising full command over all subjects involved in the political life of the USA. Ali: Is the anomaly the explanation for BIPARTISAN policy of the democrats and republicans so frequent nowadays in the American Congress? Prof. Jones: It seems so. Both parties enjoy a lavish financial support from the subjects of deep state. Therefore, the both are obliged to vote in the Congress according to the instructions given by the deep state.