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Politics : Politics for Pros- moderated
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To: Whitebeard who wrote (154172)1/8/2006 6:44:14 PM
From: Lane3  Read Replies (1) of 793912
 
I mark the decline of political discourse (that's a nice way of putting it) as Bork's confirmation battle

I'm not disagreeing with that. That's a good a marker as any for the decline in discourse. But that was discourse among elected officials. There weren't a lot of people glued to CSPAN like they're glued to Limbaugh. There was no call in to the Bork hearings, no ordinary people emulating the senators. Ordinary people still left the rhetoric to the elites.

The marker I'm talking about is when it spread to ordinary people. I think the trigger for that, what popularized it, was Limbaugh. People could call into his show and try to emulate him.
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