I have a Bachelor's Degree in Political Science and have been studying government and politics for over ten years. I also, obviously, have a passion for writing. I haven't written much since I graduated, but in the past two years or so I started to really try and push my friends to open their eyes, and have gotten in to many "debates" with conservatives.and I feel as though all you need to become a published writer of this sort is a little bit of unemployment. You can tell by the writing that he lacks polish but there he is getting attention and possibly even money for a successful career in yellow journalism.
OK, it could be a very short career and it probably doesn't pay much if at all but still I have a point in there somewhere. Another point is hinted at if you click around that site and find that it consists of sensational stories about right-wingers while I'm quite sure some other site can be found that tells comparably sensational stories about left-wingers. Of course, left-wingers aren't motivated by religion, and right-wingers are, and that makes them much worse, and I'm not kidding about that.
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I have been seeing a lot of compelling arguments against totally wacko representatives of either side of the political spectrum, I guess because they are so easy.
Not a "straw man" argument, but sort of a straw-wacko strategy. This is when they (ardent junior journalists) are not busy warning us of various slippery slopes.
I don't know. I see some striking similarities between the outliers of both the left and the right, mainly that they all seem to be obsessed with making people think like they do. I'm starting to get the sinking feeling that if you're not constantly perplexed, you must be completely delusional, or just not talking.
Totes agree with Roy. I try to avoid all political FB and blog poasts now.
After spending a few months in SE Asia last fall, America's obsession with itself shriveled to, what seemed more in keeping with how the rest of the world sees us, a post-orgasmic state.
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