Wow, are the folks at RedState (www.redstate.com) thin-skinned or what? I suppose I too would find it difficult to defend what the far Right has done to Middle America over the past eight years. I was bounced from its website and censored Saturday night after indicating that Middle America is disillusioned with the political Right and Left. Evidently, I hadn’t consumed enough of its apparatchik Kool-Aid before engaging the right-wing fringe at RedState. Oh well, so much for constructive dialogue . . .
I have visited hundreds of political websites and blogs, and I spend countless hours each day on the same, and never before have I ever been censored, never mind immediately and reflexively cut-off, for asking reasonable policy questions (a string of the last night’s exchange can be viewed at my blog address below). I will wear the rebuke like a badge of honor, and as a reminder of RedState’s inability to provide a forum to rationally discuss public policy issues impacting Middle America.
In fact, I was chastised for expressing my reasonable views and I was told, "You’ll find that stuff not welcomed here." My goodness, are we in China? (Well, not yet, but we will be soon, thanks to the trillion dollars of U.S. Treasury debt China owns and America’s skyrocketing deficit, following eight years of fiscal irresponsibility in Washington, but I digress). Suffice it to say, it’s become very clear to me why the website is called "RedState"—it’s RedState’s proclivity for censorship, of course.
For the fringe on the Right, it is precisely this irrational, emotional response to reasonable inquiry that has marginalized and isolated it from normal, thinking human beings. Unfortunately, the folks at RedState continue to read and believe their own press releases, insulating them from anyone thinking outside of their tiny little circle. Like many of the fringe lunatics on the Right, it remains out of touch with voters and continues to create a vacuum in the center, which will someday be filled, but not by someone of its liking.
Middle America and the pocketbook issues that impact it everyday have been neglected too long by the far Right. Understandably, the fringe at RedState is sensitive about it and unwilling to discuss the recent failed leadership of the Right. This is disappointing, but it brings clarity to how RedState helps the Right maintain its minority and irrelevant status.
A word of wisdom for those of you on the far Right that are hard of hearing (likely from too much banjo music): Middle America is where the voters are, which, based on your irrelevancy, you do not comprehend. However, if you’d like to dig out of the hole you’ve put yourself in, stop neglecting it. It is interested in jobs, affordable healthcare, and quality education for its children; oh yes, and constructive dialogue. Americans visiting the RedState website, whether they be Red, Blue, or Purple, deserve better than being treated like pivot men in RedState’s knuckle-dragging circle-jerk.
A. Muser
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