"Letter to the editor" ...the editor being me.

[shirenomad]

I've been reading your live journal--more specifically your links to friends pages, over the past couple days, and I recently had an idea. I would like, with your permission, to start a weekly(?) political column using your blog as a springboard. This would entail me writing a column once a week or so explaining a particular conservative position, and then responding to their objections throughout the week (possibly in a few big chunks).

[snip]

Anyway, I perfectly understand if you think this will be too divisive or inflammatory for the content of your site. Let me know what you think.

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Without giving this this guy's name just yet, know that I do know him and trust him, and if he ever starts getting what I judge as "inflammatory", I will stop letting him post here. Still, I'm hesitant to do this at all until I at least know how you'll take seeing conservative essays on your Friends List every week. I've also considered giving him an LJ invite code and letting him go nuts there, though part of the reason he wanted to use my journal is to have a pre-existing audience. Either way, it's a way for the conservatives around here to get something topical... and the liberals to try and comprehend the line of reasoning that would lead an otherwise perfectly intelligent individual to vote for Dubya.

It could also be a way to have everyone kick me off their friends list. So this is what LJ made polls for:

[Poll #380196]

[EDIT: In case it helps your decision, this will be from the same guy who wrote this piece. They won't all be on that subject, of course, but you can expect much the same writing style and so forth.]

Comments

[pokeytax.livejournal.com]

Actually, my vote is probably a lie, I read absolutely everything on my friends list. And, in lieu of the voted reasoning, here is mine:

I learned to read doing Trans-O-Grams in the back of National Review, and for much of my life my values were the same as yours, which apparently is not painfully obvious from my posts. I have read far more conservative thought than liberal, Sowell and von Mises and WFB, I just don't agree anymore. *snip snotty, several-times-retyped response to friend's snotty assumption about my exposure to alternative viewpoints, I promise to stop being a smartass from here on.* Your friend and I can agree Michael Moore sucks though.

I do enjoy your journal and appreciate your concerns even though I often find your views, which were my views, offensive and distasteful (hah, I probably wouldn't take that well! but it's honest truth, both parts.) I understand why you believe the things you do and value the things you value, because I did too, and I have empathy for the position of a conservative in a largely liberal online community, because I was too. I guess what I mean to say is that your journal is interesting to me because it's written by you, someone I know; there are plenty of places to find amateur conservative essays if that were what I was after.

But, hee, it's your journal, and I shan't defriend you whatever you decide.

This is off topic...

[beyondfake-0.livejournal.com]

*gnaws on your icon* It makes me laugh. :3