Left-wing Versus Right-wing Bloggers

07.12.2005

The left is full of crop circle paranoids. The right is full of stupid angry people. The sheer volume of information in both does manage to strip things to bare bones facts, but not by virtue of intelligence, just volume - like a colony of bacteria feeding on a corpse.

David Galbraith

Nick Lewis's blog

Comments

Fri, 2008-09-05 16:49 — buffalosean

angry left

Man , it never fails with the crazy , angry left, they continue to hand elections over to the Repub's...All the dancing around , breaking windows, making complete asshole's of thereselve's, just strengthen's the righties position. I am by the way, independant, and have voted dem in the past, but it becomes increasingly more difficult to not have distain for the insane left. (which in turn makes indies like me vote repub, because as most of us know, both sides are full of shit. It's just a matter of voting for the one's the are full of shit the least....)

Sat, 2008-09-06 04:44 — Nick Lewis

I don't know what "left"

I don't know what "left" means anymore, but I would say this: the Dems are far less full of shit these days, and you shouldn't let the crazies who support them dissuade you. My problem with the Republicans is the candidates -- not the fringe supporters (who you have to admit, are every bit as crazy as the the fringe democrats. (but at least the dem's fringe doesn't espouse the same racist, homophobic, foreigners-are-evil sorts of rhetoric. No the fringe democrats at least go after people in a position to defend themselves, and are too rich to care anyways... )

Tue, 2005-07-19 02:03 — surrogate (not verified)

crop circles

I prefer to be thought of as "an alien abducted liberal..."

Sun, 2005-07-17 21:49 — Elliot Essman (not verified)

How do you define left and right

I think there may be a gene that dictates that a person will grow up to become a cranky political commentator. Perhaps it is nurture rather than nature that determines if the gene will be expressed as "left" or "right." I don't like either, but I grew up with the left, and I see them as laboring under successive layers of belief, going back to 19th century labor union struggles, to the great depression and the flirtation with communism, to anti-facism, to the civil rights struggle of the 1960s, to the anti-war movement of the 1960s and 70s, in other words to many areas of focus that look to the past. They don't decide how to believe on today's issues on a zero sum basis, but (unconsciously) on whether their "beliefs" fit into the pre-existing intellectual substrate which they would never admit they have. I don't know the right as well, but I bet you could do a similar exegesis (and I'd like to hear it).

Tue, 2005-07-12 15:48 — Harry (not verified)

Well, excuse me!

He had me interested until he named the blogs he'd read. They're about as mainstream online America as you can get. They're also following the same kind of pattern popular nightclubs go through. The freshness lies elsewhere now.

Wed, 2005-07-13 09:08 — Nick Lewis

Popular blogs as nightclubs

"They're also following the same kind of pattern popular nightclubs go through." Well, I must admit that is a brilliant way to put it. Especially as I neither visit Kos, or nightclubs (anymore). I went to both for a while, mostly because that seemed to be where everyone else was visiting. Then, after a moment, I suddenly realized the horrible truth... People in mass make really stupid decisions in mass, and have a tendency to celebrate that which is mediocre, that which is not threatening, that which is easy. As of late I've begun to ignore the lefty political bloggers. For one, absolutely no piece of news regarding American politics could possibily shock me at this point. And more importantly, I'm convinced that any real change in America is going to have to take place outside of the political system, which like nightclubs, is a celebration of mediocrity and ease at the expense of truth and progress, and to the profit some random rich douche.

Wed, 2005-07-13 17:26 — Harry (not verified)

Hidden (well, not really) Treasure

Here is a blog I think you would really enjoy, if you're not already familiar with it, that is. And of course I agree with your conclusion.