... or at least putting some cracks in it.
I’ve been reading Daily Kos for years for a few simple reasons: It has never been any kind of perfect journalistic enterprise (it does have a slight liberal bias…) but it reports on important stories in a mostly good way. Sometimes there is a little bullshit to sift through, but in the end it is great at what it does: Getting information out to progressives. A center that progressives can organize around. A place for healthy debate. That last point is why I, about four years after I signed up, actually started commenting here: It’s fun to debate people. I started getting tired of the extreme negativity around here, particularly surrounding Obama, so I decided to wade in to the comments and see if I couldn’t engage in some good old back and forth. And I’ve been very happy so far with what I’ve encountered; a lot of these conversations have been just what good conversation should be: You bounce back and forth on the issues until you get to the key difference: the key root of the disagreement. I debated a fellow about Obama's foreign policy and eventually found that he considers FDR a war criminal. Different strokes, I guess... But that was the point. No shit he doesn't like Obama's foreign policy if he didn't like FDR's. It's a valid viewpoint, but not one I'm, or even most progressives, are inclined to agree with. But this diary will focus on domestic policy. I find that one of the main reasons that many progressives are so mad at Obama in these areas is actually not really due to “action” but “strategy”… Namely, they want Obama to use a concept that was originally a Republican strategy and talking point: the Overton Window.
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