We won't get there by outlawing anything related to campaigning because you can't stop private groups from saying whatever they want about a candidate. Anyway, smear campaigns only speak to the base. An intelligent person can see through that stuff but extremists wouldn't see through a clear glass window so they don't really matter. And smear campaigns have been around since the very beginning and have been extremely vicious even long before mass media existed so its not a recent problem either.
What you seem to be concerned about in the first comment is that the candidates themselves are of poor quality. I don't disagree but that is a symptom of the way elections are run. If districts were more competitive, better candidates would emerge. We're now in an era where the most radical loudmouth wins.
What you seem to be concerned about in the first comment is that the candidates themselves are of poor quality. I don't disagree but that is a symptom of the way elections are run. If districts were more competitive, better candidates would emerge. We're now in an era where the most radical loudmouth wins.
Why is it so?
~Julius Sumner Miller
~Julius Sumner Miller
