The problem is less the politician , the bigger problem is the brain drain happening that encourages politicians to dumb down their message . When it comes a popularity contest , intelligent , coherent policies don ' t convince voters not anymore at least . There ' s no way around it , humanity has always required the intelligent population to drag the ignorant , stupid , and belligerent opposition forward . Trying to stay clean while dragging a pig through mud is simply not realistic nor will it work . Sometimes we need the smarter half to play dirty and manipulate those trying to drag us down think carrot and stick . <| sep |> I bought an Xbox 360 in 2006 , a year after launch and I never got the RROD . I keep my consoles well ventilated , turn them off when I ' m not using them and rarely play marathon sessions , but mostly I assume I got lucky . I even bought it with a SquareTrade warranty because of all the reported issues , but per Wikipedia , in 2009 SquareTrade estimated only 23 . 7 % of Xbox 360 consoles failed . That ' s still a huge failure rate for a video game console , but even considering that , the majority of Xbox 360 owners never had a problem .