Alex,
I still have a long way to go but the best protection I have found from what you refer to are history books. It is so much easier to put things in their proper perspective with a knowledge of what has been. Agreed?
A good example. The other day I heard a news commentator bash Clinton saying that he was wrong to comment on Bush's decisions and that no president had never done that before. The first we could debate, the second was just wrong. I remembered that Roosevelt made a lot of negative statements about Taft when he was in office. It was one such example that I happened to know off the top of my head. Now, maybe later I will spend some time and look for more examples and see if that is usual or unusual.
I really wish there was a tv news channel where the only experts were history professors. I think I'd watch non-stop.
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