Stop addressing Politicians by their first name.

Well you could disregard the historical context, but it did start at that timeline, including 'Maggie' over in the UK, the most successful dodgeball to utilise this gimmick in the modern age before the current UK PM was Blair.

But disregard the whole historical political angle for two seconds, imagine somebody who you didn't know or even meet before came up to you and addressed you by your first name, seriously, what would you think? I'd be thinking "who is this dodgy gadge?" and I'd immediately be running away from the idiotic dodgeball. Modern Politicians view it no different. We need to stop doing it.

Thirty years ago that is how everybody addressed them, including the media.

Yeah because we are in a great f**king shape now aren't we? Politicians apologizing to their cult parties for making holy shows of themselves instead of apologizing to the likes of us who pay their wages.

Yeah I have no doubt it was deliberate PR gimmick. I used to work in media/communications departments in the late late 90's and this whole shtick was in full knowledge of what was happening at that particular time. This was all happening well into the eighties, that is when it really took off, you only have to look at the timeline, "Ronnie" Reagan, "Maggie" Thatcher, even Jimmy Carter had the namesake of "Jimmy" before Reagan, but Carter was and always will be remembered as "Carter". It was the eighties all this shtick took off, P.J Mara even utislised it for his boss Haughey. Alastair Campbell knew all about it's success as a political editor for British newspapers in the eighties before he spectacularly weaponised it for "Tony" in the late nineties. Culture has become more casual, you are totally correct, but this gimmick helped it. Because beforehand, no major nation leader was addressed as such, and leaders and politicians in general have a far more wider cultural importance and responsibility than we currently give them. This is why I feel this is important.

That's fair enough, but democracy is also at its ultimate end, a total game. And you are ultimately part of that game, and you should play it to your advantage, not the politicians.

Exactly, being casual in corporate business is a far different beast in the actual governance of a nation. It is far more serious and needs to be seen and addressed as such. A lot of the biggest corporate businesses today can afford to be totally casual in every single aspect as a lot of them produce nothing and also continuously turn a blind eye to any sort of societal responsibility that they may have. You can't adhere to that sort of casual lacksadaisy mindset when your business has the ultimate responsibility for the management of a nation and the tax paying citizens that exist within it. I mean, I see it as no coincidence that since this PR gimmick of casual acquaintance towards politicians came in over 30 years ago, a lot of the responsibilities and duties that these politicians have to answer for such as housing and health, these responsibilities have become so casual, they have been ultimately ignored and in turn gone completely to pot.

I know. That's exactly what I am saying. Its a far more serious business.