Ethics

Kuznicki on Binary Thinking

By Ed Brayton

Jason Kuznicki has a brilliant post at Positive Liberty that expresses perfectly the frustration I feel at the way most people think about political ideology. He begins by talking about the Fox News VP who claimed that if the story about the McCain campaign volunteer being mugged was true it would somehow cast some doubt on Obama. That VP said:

If Ms. Todd's allegations are proven accurate, some voters may revisit their support for Senator Obama, not because they are racists (with due respect to Rep. John Murtha), but because they suddenly feel they do not know enough about the Democratic nominee.

Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on November 06, 2008 (boomark / email).