Balance

I love it when people talk sense! I was beginning to think that, in order to be a blogger, I’d have to choose a side and defend it mindlessly against all comers. Lileks makes sense.

As opposed to analog commissars?

Look. We don’t have to agree on the big hard issues, but we can certainly agree that we share common values that set us apart, and that it profits no one to identify the opposition as something outside the American experience. Liberals are not Communists. Republicans are not fascists. We have a nice window of opportunity here where we can come together by choice, instead of being thrown together by events. I say we get a head start on national unity, and turn on anyone who floats the Nazi analogy. Shun ’em. No links, no reviews, no radio interviews, no newspaper pieces, nothing. From now on, the Nazi parallel buys you bupkis.