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In the U.S. election of 1796, the President of the U.S. Philosophical Society (Jefferson) ran against the founder of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (Adams). The most popular musician around that time was Ludwig Van.   

Looking back from the age of Trump, Clinton and Bieber, it's clear that things have gone to shit to an extent that hasn't been seen since Rome fell. I don't want to labour the point, but if standards continue to decline at this rate for another couple of centuries, the President of the United States would be literally a chimp, and music would be more hideous than any yowling yet produced by man or beast.

Obviously, life won't get that bad. I'm not saying that things will stop getting worse, but pace of decline has to slow.