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Politics : View from the Center and Left

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To: carranza2 who wrote (14728)	3/18/2006 10:39:24 AM
From: Dale Baker	Read Replies (1) of 540756

The problem with judging who is "highly partisan" and who has "punctured the prevalent viewpoint" is that it is always a 100% subjective and partisan judgment. Conservatives tell me it's all too liberal, liberals find much of it not progressive enough, and so on. To be blunt, whenever I get a criticism about partisanship from someone I know to be partisan, I don't pay it much mind. I have found that ardent conservatives and liberals both dislike threads where their views cannot prevail. They want the power to dismiss the Others with a single sarcastic quip and declare themselves the wise, objective winners. That's what other threads are for. This thread chronicles the weaknesses of the partisan right and the left, as the header suggests. If doing that narrows the roster to only those people who enjoy watching that process, that is peachy keen with me. That was the whole idea behind the thread, before every partisan who came along started sniping about their agenda not being followed. The fact that I get that sniping from both sides tells me I am accomplishing my goal. And it proves my gut feeling about the political disutility of partisanship to begin with. So conservatives can complain about the liberal slant and liberals can complain about conservative shots and I won't lose a minute of sleep over it. As I have said many times before, I periodically review all the posters I have banned. As soon as I find a personal attack or a post blindly demonizing the other side, they stay on the list. Guess what? No one has made it off the list. Because personal attacks and demonization are how they practice politics. And they don't do it here. The thread can have five posters or a hundred, whatever works. But by excluding a couple dozen, we have created a forum with a different atmosphere and flavor than most.

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