Kesher Talk

Sex, politics and religion. Give a big blog welcome to The Lone Dissenter, a smart outspokenstudent trying to survive in a politically leftist Bay Area high school.

If you feel like the Lone Dissenter sometimes, check out a long LGF thread on The Great Divide - losing friends and family because of different political views on 9-11 and the war. Lots of heartwrenching personal stories, and some heartening ones too.

Yes, a realignment is taking place, but it's not as simple as "liberal " vs. "conservative" or even "capitalist" vs. "socialist." I wouldn't even say it's "isolationist" vs. "interventionist," although that's part of it. It's been written about before - some call its adherents "anti-idiotarians" or "eagles" - but we are all having a hard time defining ourselves exactly. i can identify one theme running through the posts in this thread: sensible people with real relationships and their feet on the ground, getting fed-up with a certain lack of common sense and emotional dislocation from others.

posted by Judith @ 3/26/2003 03:58:49 PM