Comments on: Political Labels = Bad

Comment on Political Labels = Bad by: Mojotek

Tue, 22 Nov 2005 15:16:42 +0000

Great post! I actually got here from reading the comments at Less Idiots. Kudos to you for seeing through the tripe to what was really important and actually selling out to Corporate America (sorry, very tongue-in-cheek). You expressed about as well as Rev. Gisher the sheer enormity of the problem of labeling yourself simply because its easier than examining every issue with all the facts and logical reasoning. You may be right-leaning (I don’t know, I haven’t read enough posts yet), but your still getting blog-rolled.

Daveawayfromhome: I couldn’t agree with you more. The Dems used to be a savvy bunch who wouldn’t get trapped so easily when they were forced to go on the defensive. And hopefully they will learn… but that still remains to be seen.

I wish I could tell you which way I lean, but I’m still trying to figure it out. Bleading-Heart Conservative, maybe? Totally depends on the day, the issue, and the price of eggs in China. Read a great quote in William Gibson’s book, Pattern Recognition: “Everything Lenin told us about Communism was false, and everything he told us about Capitalism was true.” I think the weakness of the Left is that it often fails to understand what motivates people and why they do the things they do. The weakness of the Right is that it often uses realism to justify selfishness. Or so I think. I hope I’m wrong on both counts. I appreciate the props, and the blogrolling, and will check out your site. –SF

Comment on Political Labels = Bad by: Clair

Fri, 18 Nov 2005 17:24:04 +0000

The finding what’s best to solve our shared problems gets lost. It gets lost to things like people not putting their noses into the private lives of other individuals. It gets lost to picking on the nitty gritty details of our individual lives that the big picture can’t be seen. This doesn’t even begin to scratch the surface and I’m not able to put into words exactly everything I should. I too am glad we have a system where - for the most part - I feel we can go about fighting those “wars”. FYI, I have much more of a libertarian way of thinking.

Comment on Political Labels = Bad by: daveawayfromhome

Fri, 18 Nov 2005 07:32:35 +0000

I’m not so sure it is the same on the other side, at least not most of the time. That’s why the Democrats seem to have been caught so flat-footed. Liberals, to an extent anyway, are (more or less) all about making room for everybody. The person who’s motives they are least likely to question is themselves (in more ways than one; see: arrogance in humility). So when they met an opponent who implacably and unquestioningly painted them as evil incarnate, they just kind of stood there, confused, until the bus smacked into them at speed, and they got glass in their hair and whole lot flatter.
I’m sure they’ll learn though.
Too bad.