Letters to the Editor
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Hope gap and letters
Joan, an interesting article. I'd be keen have an expansion on this portion:
Gaspard [..] said that although many on the left tried to get a jump on this year, "The candidates who are running right now don't have the vocabulary to address these issues. The important work that needed to happen on the ground hasn't happened."
What does Gaspard mean? Is he talking about a media to express new concepts, or a repackaging of existing thoughts? When I look at our society, I think part of the problem is that we already have many vocabularies, many of them inconsistent with each other. One faction picks the dialect they want in order to gain advantage over the others. I'm skeptical and curious at the same time.
On the letters topic, I'm finding myself in agreement with ZipCascade and wondering if the journalism here isn't shading a tad yellow. Some of it, particularly headlines, does seem like throwing red meat into a shark tank. No suprise what happens then. For example, I found the "darkening" story to be pointless, yet incendiary speculation.
Maybe I'm just projecting and need to resend this letter to Carry instead. I know that Salon is partially in a no-win situation and a large part of this is just human tribal crap coming to the surface and it will blow over at somepoint, hopefully way before november. And I'm not into censorship. But if you look at the current thread from 'Some free advice for Obama', it's pretty toxic. I really only have a problem with one poster there, mainly for his inability to be civil and respond faithfully and constructively. He must have a rather large spleen. There are certainly other idiots for sure, maybe I'm one of them at times. I'm sure everyone else will have a different list of trolls. But I think if one or two folks tone it down a notch, things will be in much better shape. We might engage in an exchange of ideas.