"It's the End of the World as We Know It ... "
Starved for entertainment I attended a 'Television Preview' event that showcases potential pilots for the broadcast networks along with some commercials. One of the last questions we were asked concerned normal everyday topics. And one asked are politics much "meaner" (their word not mine) than they have ever been. The collective groan of the audience assembled told me that most people think that they are. And heck, California isn't even in a battleground state.
Having just been on a sojourn in two battleground states (Nevada and Arizona) I can attest that a level of hostility does exist that seems too have been stepped up in recent years. But I also offer the idea that politics has always been this mean and that now with the saturation of the media in our lives we are just a little more aware of just how mean it is.
I attended an institution of higher learning that in some way can take claim for the current "politics of war" credo. When Nixon was ...