United States Politics: ∆τ_i*ε*φ*m_i<0 where ε=4 and φ=0.25

[benji]

Politics reverting to catty high school attitudes is a little sad. Everybody gave up on trying to be serious people and fell down to Trump’s level. When once “you’re no Jack Kennedy” was seen as disrespectful, now we have a 60-year-old guy playing off the Vance boning furniture thing. Rubio making a remark about Trump’s penis is the go to political play these days. And members of both parties embrace it. I don’t know if there’s going back to boring policy candidates. Eventually it’s going to be Logan Paul vs Mr Beast telling voters to smash that ballot checkbox.

Grover Cleveland is dead as fuck, but his campaign is instructive here. Republicans had a chant: "Ma, Ma, where's my Pa?", because Cleveland was a deadbeat dad. From some brief research, it sounds like it was never confirmed, but the chant stuck anyway.

Democrats responded with "Gone to the White House, Ha! Ha! Ha!"

They distributed leaflets calling Andrew Jackson a cannibal who dined on native American flesh. Politicking is as dirty now as it always was, the only difference now is every idiot has access to a printing press.

These are actual quotes, picked less because they're the worst things said but rather because modern audiences would understand them: