One thing that really demoralized me for reading news is I read some political books from the early 70s and realized that the themes, politics and controversies

One thing that really demoralized me for reading news is I read some political books from the early 70s and realized that the themes, politics and controversies haven't changed since then. It's all the same stuff over and over again. Nothing ever get's resolved. The author says the most important thing to happen in politics in the last 40 years is Watergate. You could even go without knowing what that was and do just fine.