death of the local newspaper was bad for politics too https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McClatchy

local news papers are owned by a big national mega news corp stifling real news

no local city council meeting news or any county council meeting news or anything other than propaganda about how well things are just look at this new restaurant that is opening up

hard to do grass roots and all that and have discussions when everyone is in the dark even about local happenings

both parties do what this article accuses

Biden and Obama had someone chained to a chair for wanting to do a debate like the demopublicans are allowed to do

https://www.democracynow.org/2012/10/17/green_partys_jill_stein_cheri_honkala

football or pakled like politics the other side with the other colored shirt and different letter are the problem and my helmet is not big enough never about anything substantial

Of course the president can not wave a magic wand but they still have the media could be saying things everyday that could help sway opinion such as abortion rights or anything

Catholic Biden definitely could have been bitching way more openly about this and other things he ran on

both sides doing the same thing but claiming their different excuses and makeup are better

end of politics in america was in part when the local papers got bought up which was pre2010