...is difficult in our nation anymore because when people start quoting historical figures and references, the building blocks of an argument and a reason, we, the people, no longer have any idea what they are talking about.
I mean, when people start throwing out 'Marbury v. Madison', quoting Yates and Emerson and Plato and Socrates and saying things like 'manifest destiny' we're like "Hey, what kinda manifold that ##### say she's running?"
That is the source of establishing what you think and why; history, knowledge, education, and we no longer hold our public figures responsible for explaining themselves and then we accuse THEM of being all show and no go.