03-15-2012, 04:39 PM
(03-15-2012, 03:17 PM)Mavfin Wrote: And the media makes it worse. In the days before the swarming media, politics was the art of the possible. Now, you can't even do that, because politicians lose office over stupid things.
It might be related to the media, but it's not new. This kind of muckraking and scandalmongering has been endemic to US politics since at least the time of Thomas Jefferson. (And probably has been around since the days of Sargon the Great, scrawling out nasty rumours on stone tablets...)
-Jester