but what's your point?

n/t

Pining for a time that never really existed.

Same old, same old. Tech has changed but human nature has not.

I agree the level of modern discourse is much cheapened but I think the underlying motivations remain the same.

..... when genuine statesmen inhabited the corridors of political discourse. With the selfish-less ambitions to take America from the place it was to a plateau higher and better for the whole of the citizenry.and not just the select and chosen few.

but I also think we should be careful to not romanticize the past. Truman has his critics and selfishness has always been a feature of politics.

Even in his time, Truman was (unfairly in my view) accused of being a sell-out and a tool of Wall Street. We always pine for a past where the system was supposedly cleaner, and politicians more "genuine" , but the truth is a lot more mundane - as I see it, power is a corruptive force, but inevitable. How to navigate systems of power to improve the quality of human life is always a challenge but not impossible - but this process will never be clean and it can't transcend human nature because politics is fundamentally human.

...attention span than Trump.

If it's Stein, count me out!