Governments' turnover, nineteen where there could have been only nine/ten, is, at least partly, the result of exaggerated popular discourse that encourages such political posturing and exaggerates its effect on policy outcomes.
The BBSU's final report, issued in 1946, provided Zuckerman with a high profile forum for laying the exaggerated inter-war discourse of civilian vulnerability to rest, concluding that the misguided emphasis on undermining civilian morale had unnecessarily prolonged the war.
Yes, it will (although such effects are greatly exaggerated in our political discourse).
In civic and online discourse, the exaggerated half-serious irony that Eminem once deployed to rile up "the moral majority" has become the conventional mode of communication.
In the immediate aftermath of the Snowden revelations, the hysteria in American public discourse reached a fever pitch, with exaggerated claims coming from every direction, as the shrill cries of reactionaries crowded out more reasonable voices.
The Tucson shootings can't be blamed on Palin, Kelly, or the Tea Party: all three are more or less typical inhabitants of the debased, exaggerated and vitriolic language that now dominates American public discourse.
Moreover, the degradation of discourse -- symbolized by Arafat and Netanyahu trading charges while Palestinian rights are compromised by exaggerated "security" concerns -- impedes any wider, more generous perpective from emerging.
