When I look at the campaign tactics used in America, I am often struck by the low grade personal attacks used, the hatred, the fear, the bitterness, the list goes on and on. It truly is incredible. There seems to be but one kind of strategy: make everything as negative as possible. Don’t focus on your own, positive plans / ideas, focus on how much of a (incompetent) jerk your opponent is.
People are not called on to vote in favor of something, but in opposition to something.
The New York Times seems to have noticed that those strategies are running out of hand as well…
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