The Dumbed Down
Democracy by Timothy Egan
“The dumbing down
of this democracy has been gradual, and then — this year — all at once. The
Princeton Review found that the Lincoln-Douglas debates of 1858 were engaged at
roughly a high school senior level. A century later, the presidential debate of
1960 was a notch below, at a 10th grade level. By the year 2000, the two
contenders were speaking like sixth graders. And in the upcoming debates —
“Crooked Hillary” against “Don the Con” — we’ll be lucky to get beyond
preschool potty talk.”
Related:
Donald Trump
finally did a non-Fox News interview. It didn’t go very well – Washington Post
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/08/26/donald-trump-finally-did-a-non-fox-news-interview-it-didnt-go-very-well/