Kruse'n for a Bruise'n

This is my summary and analysis of the article written by Kevin M. Kruse. When I first started reading the article it gave me the impression that this guy was simply trying way too hard to look smart. It seemed that every other word he used had to have four syllables in it. When I was finally able to get to a point in the article where I could see through the alphabetical fog it was to see that he could only tell me that politicians lie. After all of this blubbering on his grand and final point to make was that politicians use cheap and underhanded tactics and means to achieve their goals. He lists several examples stemming from the Regan elections to the Bush elections including smear campaigns and fabricated accounts. On top of the fact that I did not need mister Kruse’s help in knowing that politicians would sell their own grandmother for a swing vote in a primary but also the fact that he wrote a piece for a very specific audience. Seeing how he writes for such a large publication I would have thought he would have been better suited to writing for a much wider demographic. He is actually doing exactly what these politicians he writes about are doing; hiding facts the people need to know in slow and dense reading so that most people will brush over it and agree with the person who bothered to read it, or most likely wrote it. I think subjects like these should be more generalized so more people can read and comprehend them. I don’t feel like this is dumbing down but catering to a society that is developing more and more systems that revolve around what I call “specific” knowledge.