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sup preechr.

I can't really say shit is truely worse, I mean, have you ever read the shrieking that went on during Lincoln's time? (ok. wait. that example is terrible on so many levels) I do think that things are evolving to become way more insidious though. There are a couple names for it: identity politics, symbolic politics, media politics, etc. The fact that we are even discussing this at a time when there is actual, substantive news coming from Iraq is indicative of this. On the same day that Kerry made this utterance Iraq's government managed to coerce American troops into abandoning an operation to recover a captured soldier... So yeah, shit is nasty, but maybe not worse. Although I kinda liked the old corruption better, back when it was kickbacks to constituencies instead of lobbyists.