I think I see the move here to try to delegitimize the worst
sort of pandering and the most cynical attempts at manipulating
opinion, but I don't know if it will stick. This sort of thing does give
a bad name to politics, I admit, which, after all, should be about people
coming to terms about how to be governed, instead of attempts
to bring "1984" to life, but I think people will probably always
see it all as politics. It does make democracy harder, but I
suppose this is our challenge.