Just How Stupid Are We?

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Speeches are written according to their audience. Nowadays, televised speeches have created a much wider audience than the comparatively select few people who would have taken the time to personally attend speeches back then. I'd bet you could find equally troubling statistics for the people as a whole back then, but only more educated people tended to be involved in things, so the candidates could afford to write speeches at a higher grade level.

Politics have always been dumb; now we are simply exposed to more of the stupidity.