First, sorry for the delay in posting, comments, and posts from guest writers. It’s been a busy, busy few weeks and I am getting some help from guests with going through the 60+ comments or so. With the hectic schedule, I even neglected any post-Election day blog 😦 Hopefully folks got to check out the other hundreds out there or even posts from folks on the Blogroll.
But, even though I missed out on that piece (and there are some great ones in the pending box which I’ll try and post soon!), I do want to write about some of the post-election conversations going on. Spawned by ‘status updates’ and such on things like Facebook, MySpace, Twitters, and conversations within those threads as well as comments on other sites that I’ve seen, there have been interesting nuances – both overt and roundabout – about race, beliefs, choices, etc. So, I’m calling this one “Things I Think. Things I Don’t Think.”
Before we get into the post, a little about where I fall in the whole political spectrum. Most people have assumed, because of the topics I write about, that I am a far left liberal. That couldn’t be further from the truth! Actually, I fall just slightly left of center. There are even issues where I fall slightly right of center (shocking, I know). What has always fascinated me, since writing this blog over a year ago, was that most conservative people commented with the assumption that I was much different from them. A few nights ago, via a Facebook conversation, I ended up getting into it with someone who I realized wasn’t all that different from me politically but who kept making assumptions that we were different. I kept trying to point out to the person that we were ACTUALLY AGREEING but she just couldn’t see it. She had already labeled me as a left wing liberal and couldn’t see that we were actually saying the same thing most of the time.
To Loosen the Mind 