This weakening is worsened by the widening distance between the governed and their governments.
“Personally, I've found that the kind of thing that I like is going into somebody else's area and not playing their music but doing whatever I do in their area.”
“Potentially significant, by the way, because we don't know exactly what's in Matt Cooper's notes, and we don't know - and we don't still know the answer to the crucial question of whether it was Rove or somebody else that revealed Valerie Plame's name to him.”