I have no idea if even one person reads this blog, but if you have subscribed anonymously to it, and received the post on the Obamalied, I wanted to say I deleted it, since it failed to meet my own editorial standards. Specifically, it was a bit mean spirited, which is unnecessary. It is not necessary to hate the haters; it is just necessary to fight them as efficaciously as possible, and for as long as necessary.
In point of fact, bitterness, vitriol, sustained anger, and enmity damage the person holding those feelings, without doing anything whatever to the person or people to whom such feelings are directed. It does damage your ability to perceive, and the fact is that we are in both a tactical and a strategic war. Truth is on our side, if we continue to value it. If we value victory over truth, then it won’t be on any side at all. It will fall and lie derelict and prostrate, while warring factions run it into the ground while screaming their religious adherence to it. This, of course, is the pattern of history, one which we are trying to transcend.
I’ll say more in a moment, in another post.