GOP Politicians are not actually personally less honorable then they were in 1973

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There were conservative republicans and liberal democrats back then too but the difference is that they were an organic creation of the place that they came from. So Bob Michel (conservative R) was a good representative of what Central IL is like and Ed Boland (liberal D) was a good representative of small city/ethnic MA. I also feel that the backstory pre-political life for republicans and democrats wasn't as big as it is now. Hugh Carey had something like 14 kids yet he wasn't some RW lunatic.

The biggest thing though is the information flow which was obviously restricted back then andprevented the far right or far left from dominating the public space. Even today, most of the elected republicans and elected democrats are backbenchers who keep a low profile.