![]() It isn't that in earlier elections politicians would refrain from slurring and slandering each other. Somewhere around the time of the Vietnam War and Watergate it started to become ugly and instead of sportsmanship the "players" began to engage in mutually assured destruction, to borrow a term used during the Cold War when the United States and Soviet Union had missiles aimed at each other's countries. ![]() ![]() There was a time in America, unknown or not experienced by people under the age of 50, when politics was a contact sport played with mostly accepted rules and the equivalent of "sportsmanship." Losers would graciously concede and wish the victor well, in most cases vowing to work with him or her for the good of the country. ![]()
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