It's Tough Being a Centrist in a Polar World
As one who gets called a liberal by the right and a conservative by the left, I know I am doing something right. Sadly, we now live in a world that demands we become strident in order to get any real attention. Ah well, that's why we have Intentional Fallacy.
The right has really been giving us all kinds of fodder—more than the left lately, in fact. If the right doesn't slow the hell down, the number of Republican former members of Congress barred from voting due to felony convictions may soon exceed, nationally, 50% of those Democrats whose registrations Washington state Republicans challenge in Belltown (just north of downtown Seattle). Sadly, that is more of a comment on the number of challenges made in Belltown than on the number of Republicans currently under indictment.
Still, we have managed to garner a couple of readers, though many have come because of blogs Xaos and I have elsewhere. Recently, a former schoolmate—we're talking about all the way back to elementary school—Googled my name and found my blogger ID. We're now back in touch, and he seems to be aligned nicely with my fellow writers. Check out Thor's blog here. I need all the links I can get to other blogs that might restore my moderate appearance. Wait, then I might get ignored again. Aw, shit!
The right has really been giving us all kinds of fodder—more than the left lately, in fact. If the right doesn't slow the hell down, the number of Republican former members of Congress barred from voting due to felony convictions may soon exceed, nationally, 50% of those Democrats whose registrations Washington state Republicans challenge in Belltown (just north of downtown Seattle). Sadly, that is more of a comment on the number of challenges made in Belltown than on the number of Republicans currently under indictment.
Still, we have managed to garner a couple of readers, though many have come because of blogs Xaos and I have elsewhere. Recently, a former schoolmate—we're talking about all the way back to elementary school—Googled my name and found my blogger ID. We're now back in touch, and he seems to be aligned nicely with my fellow writers. Check out Thor's blog here. I need all the links I can get to other blogs that might restore my moderate appearance. Wait, then I might get ignored again. Aw, shit!
Ignited by Andrew Purvis at 7:59 PM
2 Comments:
Don't worry Andrew! We still need centrists out there to keep us in line. If we could all shift back to the real center I would have a lot less to complian about. Then where would I be?
Thorrad
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