Clearly I was feeling aspirational and not particularly practical when I said in my very first post on this blog:
“One thing you won’t find here is overt politics, red meat or otherwise.”
I’ve since written two unambiguously political posts, and a third that at least skirts the definition. Am I weak? I feel it a bit, actually. There’s no question I have an inner lizard who enjoys it. This is a bit of a significant presidential election for me, though, as it’ll be the first one since 2012 in which I’ve voted for a major party candidate.
(And I’ve only ever voted for the winner twice—in 1992 and 2004.)
When I worked on this post in my head, I thought it would include a fair bit about how we (the collective we) consume news and opinion in 2024 vs. how I was trained over 30 years ago as a classical rhetorician to dissect it. I now think that will be a different post.
Six weeks from tomorrow, kids…