Into the eye of the enemy, or what?
Today I was at
http://blogs.wsj.com/...
Years ago I enjoyed reading the WSJ news summaries, but now I try to get even my financial news from hopefully less biased sources outside of the US. The extreme polarization of politics has turned this country into two roughly equally populated pissed-off and warring factions, and I believe this contaminates the content of some media outlets such as Fox News and even sometimes the WSJ...
I persist in the hope that not everyone who calls themselves conservative would fully support the innate cruelty, unfairness, and sometimes just downright stupidity of many of the economic policies favored by neocons. But it's a faint hope, sometimes.
Am I voting for Obama, or against McCain and the Neocons (sounds like a 50s band name)? I'm not sure it matters, since I need to check the same box either way. And all the people who don't want more GW Bush-type years need to hold their nose if they must, but get out there and force themselves to check some (D) boxes, or they will get us four (more) years of McSame. I'm not sure enough people really grasp that.
That's why I go out there and argue sometimes, although in general conflict depresses me. It's also why, if I have the time, I answer the neoCs who show up to visit my personal blog. One day I fear I'm going to end up on the equivalent of a Freeper bathroom wall ("for a good time call...")
I wish more moderate-voting people (do you consider the Dems really leftist? I don't) who really loved to argue would do more of it and spare those of us who would rather not. But it seems so many places are just dominated by angry and bitter conservatives who somehow see themselves as a besieged group no matter how many Republican Presidents get elected, and no matter how many years we have to endure of our winner-take-all system giving us at least enough Republican representatives to fillibuster anything they collectively decide they don't want.
Funny how the folks who still think they are fighting Communism act as a collective--but that's just an aside :)