(October 21, 2016 at 8:36 pm)Aroura Wrote: People hold open doors, and say excuse me if they bump into me, all the time. People let other people in line when waiting to exit a parking lot, or change lanes.
I think it may be a locale thing. Despite what is spewed, it isn't a millenial thing, plenty of young and polite people around here as well.
I would say it also varies in politics. One rotten apple can infect the whole barrel. Some politicians are just more polite than others. Obama is a truly gracious man who has set a very high standard. Bush Sr and Reagan, , even though I voted for neither, were both gentlemen.
If this race was Bernie vs Romney, for instance, I expect it wouldn't be the circus we are seeing now.
The history of presidential campaigns is not exactly a moment of shining glory for the US.
http://www.alternet.org/culture/dirtiest...rprise-you
Quote:As the mud flew back and forth, the campaign got so nasty that Adams completely withdrew from any active participation, feeling that he was above such campaign filth. One Adams newspaper even wrote, "General Jackson's mother was a common prostitute, brought to this country by the British soldiers! She afterward married a mulatto man, with whom she had several children, of which number General Jackson is one!"
Imagine what they could have done with TV, the internet, and social media.
