How did American politics go from having leaders who could give truly amazing speeches like Obama and Reagan to a place where all three major candidates for president deliver speeches that, at best, would get polite applause at a suburban Toastmasters night?
Discussion
Late stage. Politics of humiliation. Seems to be uniform in advanced economies.
Obama (and Blair) felt like a proto- chatgpt veneer hiding the same void, but with more decorative managerialist oratory skills. He could definitely deliver something speechy tho.
Maibe they’re too old? Or maybe they’re leveling with their electoral base. Or simply they have bad speech writers?
Bush 2 could talk good….
The best public speaker of the bunch has a speech impediment and a parasitic worm ate his brain.
Quality of education has declined and with it the comprehension of many adults. The speeches match the reading and writing level.