They learn from their leaders and that attracts more of the same like flies on manure. For the last five years, those who rule (and the blowhards-masquerading-as-experts that love them) have used slash-and-smear rhetoric and called it debate. It's been in use for longer, of course, but they didn't rule across the board then. Slowly, but surely, the masses get used to the idea that this is the way to convey your argument.
There's certainly been enough of the faux apologies during this political sedason. I hate the sympathy-masquerading-as-apology with the proverbial passion of a thousand suns. Apologies consist of acknowledgement and contrition before absolution. Unfortunately, that's an older reflex that comes from the inability of any politician to actually admit culpability.
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Date: 2006-10-30 08:44 pm (UTC)There's certainly been enough of the faux apologies during this political sedason. I hate the sympathy-masquerading-as-apology with the proverbial passion of a thousand suns. Apologies consist of acknowledgement and contrition before absolution. Unfortunately, that's an older reflex that comes from the inability of any politician to actually admit culpability.