Reply #8: did realize that, right after I posted, [View All]

and almost took the post down.

But my last paragraph stands. I'm still sick of being instructed how and when to communicate with my senators. I find I really resent it. I don't march in lockstep with anyone, except in my complete and total loathing for Bush and his evil minions. For the rest of it, I think for myself.

For an example, I was really enjoying reading firedoglake, which I found to be highly informative and fact-based, until they suddenly switched from getting the facts out to activism, after which my interest just plummeted. It's just me, and I don't expect anyone else to agree with me, just as I fully expect someone to call me out as a Kerrybot.

I find political activism exhausting, trying, depressing. I do it as a duty of citizenship, but I don't much like it. And once I find a pol that I trust and mainly agree with, I just don't spend a lot of time riding their ass. I certainly wrote JK before the IWR vote, and completely disagreed with his vote, but that didn't shake at all my basic faith and trust in him. Likewise with the censure resolution thing. I 100% believe he has his reasons for not coming out full-voiced to back it, and I also believe his reasons have nothing to do with a.) jealousy of Feingold or b.) cowardice. I trust him enough to be willing to give him the benefit of the doubt on this.

Again, this has a lot to do with my not being in love with politics. For me there's not much point in fretting over this. As I said earlier, I trust there are aspects to the question that are much more complex than the blogosphere's take allows, or else the liberal lions would have jumped in with both feet.