From that, I present you Realistic Progressive. I feel that my political views haven't changed at the core: I'm still very much a liberal with a bit of a libertarian streak; not tea party "get your government out of EVERYTHING" sort, more the "I'd prefer Government to not REALLY obstruct these things," sort of libertarian. I don't know. You could label me a "socialist" or "tax and spend librul" or whatever, but I am a Liberal. However, I have my views and am willing to engage anyone.
However, as much of a liberal as I am, it pains me to look at politics through these hyper-partisan times and the seeming cacophony of noise from the Left and the Right. Cable news and the internet and expanded broadband and wireless capabilities have only added to the nonsense. I’m not the first person to comment upon this, I likely won’t be the last.
What I don’t want from this iteration of the blog is to not bash the right or the left, but to bring the happenings of today’s whirling dervish into a realistic lens. That is, moving things from the context of outrage to looking at things asking “well why does this work?” So, I don’t want this to devolve into the Left-Right he said-she said nonsense. This will evolve over time I hope, especially as a means of critiquing both sides and looking at things with the lens of “what works best.”
One final thought on this re-introductory post: I want to discuss the role of technology and politics, and in particular social, that is social news, media, interaction. To clarify: how do we, as citizens or the politically engaged integrate things like Facebook and Twitter and other services to make the interactions between people and elected officials that help maintain the myth of “transparency” in government? That will likely make for a first post, but it is something that I would like at some point to help change.
For now, this is the new Realistic Progressive, and I’ll be blogging soon.
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