The Smear Factor: Why We Hate Politics
By Carl M. Cannon
Late in George H.W. Bush’s presidency, political writer E.J. Dionne wrote “Why Americans Hate Politics,” a book arguing that the nation’s two major political parties offered the country dueling “false choices” regarding the pressing policy issues of the day. In 2004, Dionne updated the book, emphasizing in a new preface his belief that “ideas shape politics far more than most accounts of public life usually allow.”
I hope that’s true. It’s why I live in Washington and write about politics and public policy for a living instead of hanging out in Southern California’s beach towns awaiting the next good surf break and summer thoroughbred racing at Del Mar.
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