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| He is fed up with the mindless chatter of the political campaigns. He is fed up with what he perceives to be an impoverished national dialogue consisting outdoors of politicians speaking to interest groups and not the broader public. He notes that when politicians actually are willing to speak candidly about anything they are immediately the target of vicious criticism in outdoors the media and from outdoors uncompromising members of their own "base" and are reluctant to speak out again. Sound familiar? But he hardly spares the American public his ire. We are ignorant and wilfully so. We get the politicians we deserve and always have the power to speak up and make ourselves heard. . . but we don't. Ralph Nader has said many times that if Americans paid nearly as much attention to political and public policy discussions as they do their favorite sports teams we would be a far more literate and involved politic. Maybe so, but one walks away from Germond's work with the sense that there is something natural about our growing apathy. |
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