If you read the science section of the NY Times it’s also highly misleading. It’s full of stories about how one research team found something surprising and the reader is conned into believing that the research result is very meaningful.
Most newspapers are in the entertainment business and care about having large audiences that pay them money or watch their ads. Most of their commentary is shitty.
Were people to learn that politics has much less potential than is commonly imagined, cynicism would burgeon.
Politics doesn’t have less potential. FDR managed to create massive change. The US would likely look quite different without him. It’s just that the latest presidents mostly implement deep state agendas that are pretty independent of the party that’s in office.
Dominic Cummings writes on his blog a lot about the actual potential that does exist and could be fulfilled if you had a governing coalition that would be willing to do so. It just about boring topics such as civil service appointments.
If you read the science section of the NY Times it’s also highly misleading. It’s full of stories about how one research team found something surprising and the reader is conned into believing that the research result is very meaningful.
Most newspapers are in the entertainment business and care about having large audiences that pay them money or watch their ads. Most of their commentary is shitty.
Politics doesn’t have less potential. FDR managed to create massive change. The US would likely look quite different without him. It’s just that the latest presidents mostly implement deep state agendas that are pretty independent of the party that’s in office.
Dominic Cummings writes on his blog a lot about the actual potential that does exist and could be fulfilled if you had a governing coalition that would be willing to do so. It just about boring topics such as civil service appointments.