You know, it strikes me that career politicans in this country are completely clueless as to the real way the Internet has changed society. Used to be, an Obama could go to a private party in San Francisco and pander to one group of voters without it suddenly being common knowlege to the entire planet (and especially the other group of voters he lied to the night before.) Used to be, facts about what you believed ten years ago were so paper-bound that they went into the Memory Hole and disappeared by this year’s election, because regular people were too lazy to look it up and “journalists” didn’t really care. It really is a Brave New World!
Not enough, yet.
The people who either don’t watch any news at all or get their news from TV are still enough to keep us on the road to Hell.
First time I noticed that was during Pres.Carter’s campaign. He went from state to state, making campaign promises diametrically opposed to each other. Since I was in the AF, I followed news from many of my colleague’s states, and realized this. We often discussed this over drinks during that time. If there has been something like the internet where we could start the ball rolling, I suspect that his duplicity would have been well known before the election, but that aspect never made the press -— again, something we discussed with each other.
This has changed politics - if stuff like this doesn’t get propagated by the major media (including, now, web sites) it gets rolled into a letter that gets forwarded forty times from cousin Pete to Aunt Bessie... These things will no longer remain hidden for long.