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February 12, 2021

Knowing Left from Right

I’m feeling outraged and depressed (because politics), plus it’s up to -2 outside (from -10 this morning), so I’m feeling very lazy about writing a post. (And I’m going to have to go out into the chill and shovel the light snowfall off my sidewalk and driveway. Brr!)

Therefore I’m offering up a lightly edited political piece I’ve had sitting in my folder of potential posts… since 2012. Which makes it both outdated and yet oddly still relevant. It’s a short piece, originally intended to be a Brain Bubble, but I’m just going to throw it out there as a regular post.

It’s a rumination on the differences between Left and Right in politics.

10 Comments | tags: conservative, Democrat, progressive, Republican | posted in Politics

November 11, 2020

The Big Divide

By Wyrd Smythe

I keep thinking about the 71+ million Americans who voted against nearly everything American has stood for until the last few years. Our Continental Divide may be beautiful to behold, but our National Divide is an ugly disgrace to normative values.

At least they have been our values until now.

22 Comments | tags: conservative, Democrat, Democratic Party, election 2020, Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, Never Trump, progressive, Republican, Republican Party | posted in Politics, Society

November 9, 2016

Seriously? Seriously?

By Wyrd Smythe

I hope you know what you’re doing. I get the part about voting for him. What I don’t get is being fooled by him. And I’m not sure who’s getting fooled. Is he what he appears to be, or is it all just an act?

He’s a real estate salesman. He doesn’t design buildings. He doesn’t actually build them. He just puts his name on them. He “gets it done” but what about how he gets it done?

What is his word worth? Is he an honorable man? A decent one? A kind one? Do we have any fucking idea who this guy really is?

14 Comments | tags: change, changes, Chris Matthews, conservative, Donald Trump, fear, GOP, government, House of Representatives, politicians, polls, pollsters, POTUS, President Elect Trump, President Trump, Republican Party, Senate, social change, social issues, social media, WTF | posted in Politics

June 16, 2012

BB #3: Class Warfare

By Wyrd Smythe

Today a second Brain Bubble; a pair of related BBs fired into the interweb. The first one concerned the “mainstream liberal media” meme. This one concerns another meme we seem to accept as given, but which I think deserves deeper thought. (Of course, I’m prone to thinking most things deserve deeper thought than they get, but that’s another BB… or SB… or full-blown article!)

In any event, this BB concerns the idea of “Class warfare.” It’s a phrase often used by the upper class to describe any sort of perceived “attack” against them. It implies “dirty fighting” and seeks to turn any complaint—no matter how valid—into an ad hominem attack.

Which, of course, would be unfair, right?

2 Comments | tags: class warfare, conservative, liberal, occupy-wall-street | posted in Brain Bubble, Politics, Society

May 13, 2012

BB #2: Lamestream Miberal Nedia

By Wyrd Smythe

At some point the phrase, “liberal media,” became part of the accepted public dialog.

Perhaps “accepted” isn’t the correct word, as some have taken the tack that, “No, this statement is false, the media isn’t liberal at all. Here’s proof…” I have never found their arguments convincing, although obviously I have my own bias on the situation.

For purposes of this Brain Bubble, I’m going to take it as given that, as a rule, the media really does lean left (for common definitions of “media” and “left”).

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