Subjecting Myself to Objections

This is not meant to be a source of objective analysis in any respect. What it is going to be is a person - me - attempting to make some kind of sense of the madness that people in the media - mostly on the right, but also on the left - attempt to perpetrate on people in the world - namely, me. I'm sick of preaching to the choir. I'm tired of talking with fellow lefties in the office about the egregiousness of the filth floating out of the mind of the right these days. Because what good does it do? It seems like an unfortunate mass of Americans eat it all up and ask only for more. How can a person fight against the rising tide? How can a person stay sane, remain convinced that everything in life is still worth it, when not only straightforwardly imbecile, but in fact otherwise intelligent humans are capable of wearing such blinders? Andrew Sullivan, I'm talking about you, buddy. I'm talking about others of course, but I'm really talking about Andrew Sullivan, who is one of the most maddening commentators in the political world - possibly the most infuriating of them all - because he sees so clearly when his mind is suddenly jolted with undeniable moments of truth such as the hash Bush-plus-Republican-Congress have made of the fiscal health of our government, or Abu Ghraib, or probably most shocking of all - just shocking! - when Bush sucked up to the religious right by "defending marriage" from the "gay agenda" with the Federal Marriage Amendment. Andrew Sullivan was shocked - shocked! - shocked and dismayed that his fearless leader would do such a thing, when of course to anyone with eyes unhampered by conservative blinders, such a thing from George W. Bush is exactly what one expects.