The politicians are a product of the media environment imo. The blame lies in the race to the bottom that happened in news once it got competetive. Until the i

The politicians are a product of the media environment imo. The blame lies in the race to the bottom that happened in news once it got competetive. Until the innoculative meme of having an intuitive understanding of sampling (both of individual incidents and individual aspects of a thing) spreads throughout a decent portion of the populatiob, this awful situation will continue.