Me, a liberal?

Kenneth Hynek • 14th Sep 2009 • Politics, American Politics, Entertainment, Celebrities, Society, Men and Women, Entertainment, Science Fiction
BSG, Dirk Benedict, Galactica 1980, United States, Yahoo

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Over on some Yahoo!-based Galactica 1980 discussion board, someone has mistakenly assumed that this is a “liberal” blog based on no other evidence apart from my brief thoughts of Dirk Benedict’s whining about how Starbuck was played by a girl in the recent re-imagined BSG series.

Are they reading the same blog I’m writing?

This is another thing I hate — as in: utterly despise — about political discourse in the United States: the “for us or against us” mentality that recognizes no middle ground between polarized and extreme viewpoints. Apparently it means I’m a liberal — to these Galactica groupies — simply because I disagreed with one article written at Big Hollywood. Never mind the fact that I typically find I agree with about 75% of the content posted at said same site!

Yeesh.

Remember, people: the enemy of your enemy is not automatically your friend; he is merely and ONLY your enemy’s enemy. He may well be more your enemy than he is your enemy’s enemy, save in a specific, isolated instance or circumstance.

Me, liberal? Yeah, right…and I’m Lutheran too.