I wrote an article last year about the ‘category killing’ behaviour of politicians. The upshot of that article was that if politicians continue to call describe each other in increasingly negative terms, eventually the mud will stick and we will see all politicians in negative terms, and the whole ‘category’, politicians, in a negative light. […]

I wrote an article last year about the ‘category killing’ behaviour of politicians. The upshot of that article was that if politicians continue to call describe each other in increasingly negative terms, eventually the mud will stick and we will see all politicians in negative terms, and the whole ‘category’, politicians, in a negative light. indeed, I would argue that this is what happens. Politics is seen as a dirty game perpetuated by less than ethical competent people. Indeed, how could we see it otherwise as both sides tell us that the other is incompetent, dishonest, misleading, etc etc.. To me this also raises an question of credibility. How credible is it that everything the conservative side of politics says is correct, or that everything the progressive side of politics says is incorrect. How credible is it that only the progressive side of politics is moral and that only the…