November 03, 2004
Another version of my last post
I was hoping the shouting would die down today, and I could turn my attention back to hockey and...oh, damn.
Well, since I don't have hockey...
My ex and I had several e-mails back and forth today. Being politically opposite isn't why we are divorced, and in many ways I was actually better informed and more articulate about political issues when we were married, because I had to keep on my toes to debate him. In the course of today's messages, though, I did take umbrage when he called me an idiotarian (that term, and moonbat, send me over the edge. They are just too mean-spirited.)
He did eventually apologize, in his way (he didn't actually say he was sorry, he said that at least I'm a leftie who will listen to reason, and he likes debating me because I don't quote Michael Moore.)
I pointed him to the Jefferson address...specifically "But every difference of opinion is not a difference of principle. We have called by different names brethren of the same principle."
I wish I could make everyone on either side who insists on disparaging the other side write that a hundred times on the blackboard.
It's a good time to step back and look at the big picture.
This was not the final showdown of Good vs. Evil.
We have different priorities, different solutions, and even differing opinions on which situations are problems requiring solutions. Zoom out farther, bigger picture. Zoom out again. And again.
See? We're actually in the same place.
And it isn't red and blue.
Tomorrow, I'm talking about hockey.
Posted by Nic at November 3, 2004 09:49 PM