Besides my comment below, I would add that another unintended consequence of the criminalization of politics is the plummeting quality of public servants. Newt Gingrich failed to consider this in his impeachment of Bill Clinton. In Gingrich's Jacksonian smash-mouth fervor, he didn't even consider that adequate remedies existed for Clint…
Besides my comment below, I would add that another unintended consequence of the criminalization of politics is the plummeting quality of public servants. Newt Gingrich failed to consider this in his impeachment of Bill Clinton. In Gingrich's Jacksonian smash-mouth fervor, he didn't even consider that adequate remedies existed for Clinton's perjury AFTER he left office. The long term was result was the abandonment of the US political process by anyone that normal people would consider remotely normal, humane or decent. Pelosi, Trump, Biden -- the list goes on. These people are hardly fit for a zoo, much less electoral politics and leading a great nation. Add in the rise of agitprop fundraising grifters, internet bubble *journalism*, and a collapse in civic instruction and virtues, and the public square has become a tragic spectacle.
Besides my comment below, I would add that another unintended consequence of the criminalization of politics is the plummeting quality of public servants. Newt Gingrich failed to consider this in his impeachment of Bill Clinton. In Gingrich's Jacksonian smash-mouth fervor, he didn't even consider that adequate remedies existed for Clinton's perjury AFTER he left office. The long term was result was the abandonment of the US political process by anyone that normal people would consider remotely normal, humane or decent. Pelosi, Trump, Biden -- the list goes on. These people are hardly fit for a zoo, much less electoral politics and leading a great nation. Add in the rise of agitprop fundraising grifters, internet bubble *journalism*, and a collapse in civic instruction and virtues, and the public square has become a tragic spectacle.