February 8, 2010
Has There Ever Been A Point In This Country Where Political Discourse Between The Common Folk Wasn’t So?
nasty and riddled with hyperbole and ad hominem attacks?
Or do you think perhaps the internet has influenced things in this direction through anonymity and the inability to get the reward for what your tongue has provoked?
Or could it be that our politicians have been that bad over the last few years?
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The American Political Tradition: And the Men Who Made itA revised edition of the clasic study of American politics from the Founding Fathers to FDR.
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Comments on Has There Ever Been A Point In This Country Where Political Discourse Between The Common Folk Wasn’t So?
I think it’s always been like this but because of technology, we are saturated in it. People do seem a bit angrier though. There have always been bad politicians, there are bad people in any group. We get to hear all the details now though.
Nasty political yack has always occurred, but the internet has allowed us to share it with everyone in the world (instead of your neighbors or people sitting around in a bar.)
So the scope of communication has increased, but not particularly the intensity of it all.
It is an OLD truism that the fastest way to make enemies is to talk politics or religion. That’s nothing new.