As the society has gotten larger and more complex, individuals have lost their ability to influence any of the institutions that affect their lives.

Also the fact that anything he does is seen and heard by the entire country, not just his actual audience or those who live in the region he happens to be in.

Most of the things that need to be said about the President are things he can't say himself.

It is my belief that it is not the fact that he traveled as much as he did during the past few months as much as what he said and how he said it that hurt him.

Every person has only so much attention to give, and politics and government takes up only a fraction of what it did 25 years ago.

Look at the declining television coverage. Look at the declining voting rate. Economics and economic news is what moves the country now, not politics.

This has resulted in more and more people becoming inner-directed and having as their only goal, getting as much as they can get out of the system and putting as little into it as possible