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To: LindyBill who wrote (8958)	9/23/2003 7:19:33 AM
From: KonKilo	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793698

They just don't produce as many good op-ed people compared to the right. I'm glad you like the current crop of right op-edists, but it is certainly a matter of opinion. My blogging rounds reveal many, many fine minds on both sides.

To: LindyBill who wrote (8958)	9/23/2003 9:21:20 PM
From: Dayuhan	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793698

the left stills owns the Journalists. At least 80% or better vote left. Including the Editors. What do you mean by “voting left”. Would mainstream Democrat be “left”, or would that be reserved for the Naderites? What would be, in your opinion, the litmus issues that differentiate “left” and “right”? They just don't produce as many good op-ed people compared to the right. Who would you consider to be good ones, on both sides? Bad ones? For my part, as a sort-of-occasional journalist, I can only think of myself as a political exile. I look at the Democratic Party and I see a fair number of reasonable people with ideas that deserve consideration, held hostage by the new age fuzzheads and the loopy left. I look at the Republican party and I see a fair number of reasonable people with ideas that deserve consideration, held hostage by the born-again nutters and the radical neocons. The extremists in both cases are cut from the same cloth: they want the US government to be a device for imposing their beliefs on everyone else. It seems to me that the moderate Democrats and the moderate Republicans, while they have plenty to argue about, have a lot more in common with each other than they do with the extremist wackos that are using their political leverage to draw the two parties away from the center. It seems to me that the insistence that the political spectrum is divided in a binary left-right with-us-or-against-us paradigm does more harm than good, and leaves a lot of people (myself included) unrepresented. It also seems to me that if we could get some sort of union of the center – I couldn’t care less what it calls itself – and marginalize the extremists on both sides, both America and the world would be much happier places. It won’t happen, but I still have the right to dream….