Comments on: political chaos http://www.dysnomia.us/2009/01/political-chaos/ Piracy, space and post-Soviet conflicts. Also treehugging, mayhem and high weirdness. Sat, 10 Sep 2011 02:49:32 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Richardson’s Withdrawal Raises Questions About Severity of Federal Probe at Klintron’s Brain http://www.dysnomia.us/2009/01/political-chaos/comment-page-1/#comment-1066 Richardson’s Withdrawal Raises Questions About Severity of Federal Probe at Klintron’s Brain Tue, 06 Jan 2009 22:19:42 +0000 http://www.dysnomia.us/?p=410#comment-1066 [...] (via Dysnomia) [...] [...] (via Dysnomia) [...]

]]> By: katie monster http://www.dysnomia.us/2009/01/political-chaos/comment-page-1/#comment-1059 katie monster Tue, 06 Jan 2009 08:27:04 +0000 http://www.dysnomia.us/?p=410#comment-1059 I think whenever there is an increased level of public dissatisfaction with the government, the public tends to scrutinize their dear leaders a little more. But I don't think there is ever really any more or less nastiness going on, (politicians are perennial douchebags) just varying levels of complacency about it. Most of the time senators are doing shady deals with lobbyists/hookers while the economy is good, so no one really cares. But now, people are looking for reasons why things are so horrible, so they blame the politicians for their woes, rather than the social/political/economic systems that caused said woes in the first place. I could probably ramble on about this for way too long, but I'll stop now. As far as resources for tracking political scandals, my answer is: google that shit. Also, books. I think whenever there is an increased level of public dissatisfaction with the government, the public tends to scrutinize their dear leaders a little more. But I don’t think there is ever really any more or less nastiness going on, (politicians are perennial douchebags) just varying levels of complacency about it. Most of the time senators are doing shady deals with lobbyists/hookers while the economy is good, so no one really cares. But now, people are looking for reasons why things are so horrible, so they blame the politicians for their woes, rather than the social/political/economic systems that caused said woes in the first place. I could probably ramble on about this for way too long, but I’ll stop now.
As far as resources for tracking political scandals, my answer is: google that shit. Also, books.

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