One of the challenges for us amateur political pundits, ie, those not in the professional left, is that we don't fit neatly into the 24 hour news cycle. We have opinions we'd like to share on issues that matter to us, and are excited when people get started up talking about them, but we don't necessarily have 1,000 word essays ready to go five minutes after some post starts making the rounds [warning, this one approaches 2,000]. However, a number of times some issue or other flares up momentarily that actually has a great deal to explore beneath the surface.
David Sirota likes to take a passionate tone in his pieces, and naturally, that makes for great entertainment fodder. I'm a little surprised at how strong the pushback is, because we could use some more passion in our party, and anyway, getting fired up and ready to go is what we've supposed to have been doing, right?
Sometimes I agree with him (this piece), sometimes I don't (coming soon). That's the fun of living in a country with 300+ million opinions. Recently, he highlighted an area that is of some interest and import to me, so I thought I'd expand a little more into the substance.
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