"Anything is ok to discredit another candidate isn't it? - unless it happens to be the one you support."

Of course! ;-) That's how it works in politics. The politicians do it. The media does it. The citizens do it, and all the big blabbermouths here on Mudcat do it too. Standard procedure. They don't mind it when they do it, but they hate it when their opponents do it, because they can't stand seeing themselves reflected in the mirror of life.

No exceptions.

Look, people, you are all taught by the social system around you to do this from the time you are toddlers. It's conveyed to you in every way possible. You are taught to be mean, competitive, aggressive, judgemental, prejudiced, and fanatically partisan. You are taught this through organized sports, all forms of political discourse, those silly student council elections in your schools, beauty contests, business, and every other form of publicly competitive exercise, all of which produce a few winners and a great many losers.

This is how you are ruled from the top down...by divide and conquer tactics. You are kept uselessly fighting against each other while the $ySStem rules you all from the top down till the day you die. And it works like a dream.