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Very well put as usual. As many people have pointed out, a key problem is the fact that our political press long ago gave up the responsibility of making factual statements. Instead, they obsessively "present both sides" (as if every phenomenon could be boiled down to a difference of Republican and Democratic perspectives) and call the horse race. As a result, the news is fundamentally detached, cynical, and utterly powerless in front of politicians who themselves are equally cynical, but much more driven to affect the world we live in.
At least, the neocon politicians are so driven. Just what the Democrats are about, I'm afraid I really can't understand.
