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Originally Posted by Tully Mars
I'd say he's certainly involved in trying to form public policy. But the definition of politician doesn't state one must be involved in forming public policy.
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I think the distinction interesting though. We can easily try to claim that it's only the media and not elected officials that are the problem. I wanted to address this to suggest that it's the elected officials too.
And I believe that many people use the word politician to imply elected officials.
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