On the state of politics as we know it today

Back in the days before there were any media at all, except maybe the local weekly (if that) or maybe the local preacher (See "Sinners in the hands of an angry God," Jonathan Edwards 1741),  people had little to look forward to in the way of entertainment. But what they did have were politics. And when the politicians came to town they had themselves a good old fashioned party--which is probably why the politicians called their organizations "parties." Now given all the media and entertainment we have, politics still or maybe more so has become a huge entertainment business. And it seems that every cycle it has become bigger, louder, more annoying, time consuming but providing no insight into anything and hardly more entertaining. . .