As of 2012, more than half of the country was not alive when Nixon resigned. http://t.co/bLE1EMxOWI
— Philip Bump (@pbump) August 8, 2014
Thanks, Gerry Ford, you half-bright tool in the hands of the GOP sociopaths! From the Washington Post story:
Over 40 percent of the country, including more than half of people under the age of 35, think the Watergate scandal was just a symptom of political wrangling and mud-slinging — what we might now call politics as usual. But, why?…
For those under the age of 35, a majority say that Watergate was just politics. For those over 35, it varies a bit — but there’s still a healthy percentage that apparently considers the affair to have been mostly a political maneuver by Democrats….
If you don’t remember Watergate, and if you don’t think Nixon was that bad, and if you think that political parties are all the same and government is broken, and if everything is a something-gate, you can see how one particular scandal might seem more like part of that cynical picture of American history than as something exceptional.
And if you do think politics is broken, there’s a key event that probably helped lead you and your peers down that path: the Watergate scandal.
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