Setanta wrote:As Soz hints at in her comment, a great many people are fed up with the attempt to categorize them by the witless dichotomies of which clueless writers at The Washington Times or Fox News are so fond, as well as more distant observers.
That kind of makes, rather than contests my point right? Theres enough people out there exasperated with this manic, inane camp thinking thats governing US politics right now to give someone like Kinky an outsider chance. Or any non-conventional populist with balls the left might put up, as soon as it finally figures out that by playing to character and putting up stereotype-confirming ueberblue-staters like John Kerry, the Democratic party is doing its
own part in ever solidifying the liberal vs conservative sheepherding thats going on - a game which it'll
never win.
I wouldnt let the people get off so scot-free either. Sure, Fox News does what it can to perpetuate the simplification of political thought into cookie-cutter, polarised narratives; but in the end its the viewers, talk radio listeners and
voters who're empowering those folks. Chicken and egg. You can see how it works even right here at A2K, there's enough self-policing going when it comes to keeping the neat demarcations in place of what "one of us" and "one of them" is supposed to think or say or not. I just havent seen anything like it in continental politics.
Finally, one's gotta admire the rhetorical turn you tried, here, of pretending a post made in
agreement with my argument somehow supports your blustering contention about how
clueless it is, but, you know ... didnt quite work.