During my hiatus from blogging, I got to reading a fair number of blogs on various topics. I’ve blogged something along these lines before, but I just can’t get over how much hot air is wasted on lambasting the opposing political party.
So let’s see if I can be more helpful this time…
The illusion that there are just two takes on politics– a line in the sand, so to speak–keeps a whole lot of folks barking back and forth at each other and not really accomplishing much. Putting people into little boxes with big labels is simply not the way to get what you want. If you”re at all serious about your political aspirations, you’ll learn that among the “lefty” “liberals” and“extremist” “conservatives” are a whole lot of folks who may be useful in achieving your political ends. If the extent of your political activity is blogging to proclaim your political affiliation and your inalienable rights, then your staunch on-line community runs the risk of becoming nothing more than a sappy peer support group.
Really want to affect change in the world? Try this: Only blog your political dissatisfaction when accompanied by a serious treatment of your suggested solutions and what you are doing to make those solutions a reality.
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