Fitting too many stereotypes

This is too funny. It is a profile of the blogger behind a site called My Left Wing, which I’ve never actually read.

One stereotype about liberals and conservatives, in my humble and entirely unbiased opinion, is that conservatives talk about the issues and liberals talk about themselves. It makes me sad the the left side of the blogosphere is defined by this sort of thing.

On the one hand, it’s good for Republicans since the sheer Tourettic madness on the other side takes the opposing party off the cliff, politically. That’s the schadenfreude argument, and it’s one reason ‘Pubs are able to retain power (even when they abandon their own principles).

On the other hand, it’s not actually a net gain for the country or the world because we lose a lot of good minds to such infantile regression. Hey, anger and passion make us who we are. And then we grow up.

Comments

[The Gentle Cricket]

I'm really upset about this shift of so many dem's. I am a firm believer of the two party system; it allows two (or more) ideas to be presented to address a common problem. However, it requires reasonable debate, and balance (I think it is the most under-rated "check & balance"). Without rational, calm debate from the left, the two-party system becomes a one-party system.

[Matt S]

GC, I couldn't agree more. It's not that the Dems are wrong -- though they often are -- it is that they have abdicated. We need a two party system.

The 'Pubs don't look like 'Pubs these days. Witness the new 527 legislation. If they lose this fall, it will not be because the Dems gained the confidence of voters. It will be because 'Pubs supporters stopped supporting them.