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Wednesday, November 7, 2007 12:00 AM

The Internet is making us stupid

Legal sage Cass Sunstein says democracy is the first casualty of political discourse in the digital age.

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  • Tuesday, November 6, 2007 11:21 PM

    The thesis sums up as this:

    The internets has allowed nasty little Americans to talk to each other, and a lot of them have come to the realisation that my president is about as appealing as herpes, therefore the internets is to blame.

    It ain't the internet's fault.

    Torture, illegal detentions, the price of oil, an economy which is failing, the rest of the world's views on America taking a nosedive, the utter failure that is the War on Terror, the frequent and highly effective pantsing the hard-copy media has recieved by the blogs, the subprime crisis (Brewed to a large extent by the conservative love affair with de-regulation), the use of and the rapid de-secularisation of American politics are all to blame.

    Your president's policies are to blame for the polarisation of America, he is not a pretty good president he IS one of the worst in America's history.

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