*heavy sigh*
how do ya fight it?!?
This guy describes what I’ve experienced lately. Too much.
...What bewilders me is that the signals that are exchanged (and on the right they would be: “the elitists and freeloaders on the left,” rah-rah Rush, and something about Obama’s leanings toward treachery and tyranny; I have close friends who reach out to me with those signals, and I can’t return them, either) are the crudest and most stereotyped and involve the least thought. They are knee-jerk, groupthink slogans precisely because their function is tribal identification in an era when the old identifiers like class and religion have become muted and muddled....
Thing is, sometimes it’s from folks I have no trouble setting right. And sometimes it comes from folks I enjoy, respect and—other than politically—respect and admire.
I don’t know how to handle it.
It makes me angry—very angry—that things have devolved to this.
... The divisions are real, but those who exacerbate them for sport or profit, on both sides, will deserve the blame for what’s to come. ...
Posted by Claire on 04/04 at 06:56 PM
We all have the right to our own opinions. We do not have the right to our own facts.
Posted by ZZMike on 04/07/10 at 11:44 AM
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