Wait, did I say bad for politics? I meant bad for opportunistic pandering weasels.

If YouTube forces all the current candidates to become inauthentic, prepackaged, shrink-wrapped, caricaturzied automatons, voters will spot it instantly. And that may create an opening for new candidates who are more real.

TMLutas,
In an era where even asking a voter for identification is considered “racist” and “intimidation” there are no problems that are not “difficult”.

As for the concept that “each voter defines” their expectations before they vote is…..ambitious.

Personally, I think YouTube simply gives cover to the trend politicians have engaged in since Nixon; namely to avoid any interaction with any voters unless they have large sums of money.

Your representatives and senators don’t want to talk to you anymore than absolutely necessary. That includes speeches, campaigning or, god forbid, actually corresponding with you, the voter.

You can test my hypothesis by going online and send your representative an email. If you receive any response it will most likely be a newsletter with a link asking for a donation. Anwsering machines and even personal letters seldrom result in anything more than a printed newsletter or other junk mail.

Face it, we have permitted our elected representatives to create a new self-defining aristocracy that has put itself above “our” laws and us and I don’t see any changes in the future.

You know that Romans of ‘good’ families spent years being tutoring in good rhetoric and logic. It might not be a bad thing to have an environment in which to avoid those awkward public moments, that those seeking the responsibilities of public office once again apply themselves in classical training. Those who are well grounded will likely avoid the pitfalls while presenting themselves with a ease that belies contrived or phony.