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Have you watched US presidential debates across the decades? (1992) https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=jWo88Lr0rzw&t=102s https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=jWo88Lr0rzw&
by ethbr1 2y ago
Have you watched US presidential debates across the decades?
(1992) https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=jWo88Lr0rzw&t=102s https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=jWo88Lr0rzw&t=102s
They've objectively gotten meaner and dumber with each cycle.
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- plagiarist 2y agoYou can also see that Congress has become this trash: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article/figures?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0123507 https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article/figures?id=10.1371... I think a large contribution to this behavior is the limited number of representatives. A terrible law and a huge disservice to the American people.
- ethbr1 2y agoAlso, you know, gerrymandering. The US needs a constitutional amendment that just picks one of the mathematically-based methods for evaluating voting districts and makes it mandatory.
- myvoiceismypass 2y agoIt definitely seemed to get very sides-like-sports-teams in the mid 90s just after this (when Newt was speaker) and just gotten progressively worse over time.