Re: In Praise of Lyme Activists

derdrittemann2003_at_yahoo.com
Date: 12/30/04 

Date: 29 Dec 2004 17:17:13 -0800

a_weisman@yahoo.com wrote:
>
>"... and LymeNUT is a red state kind of place (sorry
> der drittemann, I know you don't like the red state blue state
> dichotomous thinking and I will admit it is not a healing mode of
> analysis and it is a bit glib in that it glosses over the more purple
> kind of truth)".

Yes...but to me, that isn't why I am somewhat...uh...perplexed...as to
why you keep doing this.

Why antagonize people with this sort of thing? I'm a Dem from a "blue"
state myself...but I know...and YOU know...that politics is a game of
ADDITION...and there is really no point in needlessly antagonizing
people who might be otherwise receptive to your message.

I guess I am not getting why "red state" people are undesirable...or
what attributes you are uniformly assigning to them.

If nothing else...it's sort of..."bad form", I guess.
Unprofessional...politically speaking...reading between the lines,
here, seems to me you should know better...that at a minimum, you've
probably had a little more political experience than most here...you
know, building briges..."reaching out"...and all that sort of
stereotypical political "nice-nice" talk?

(I mean, if it makes you feel better, and all...but why)?
>
"Yes it is very cult like. And very bush like. I bet most of em voted
for him".

Yeah? And? So what?