Livin' in Liberalville
-or- a skewed perspective
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Today I opened up my Political Meter widget, and to my surprise saw that www.electoral-vote.com has projected that, as of today, Bush would win the election 311 electoral votes to 223.
*Gasp*
Why is BlueDev so taken aback by this you may ask.
Well the answer is simple. I live in Liberalville. Yep, I live in this incredible bubble of nearly manic liberalism. Heck, even the liberals here think Chapel Hill is a little far to the left. It is an interesting situation really. At school I am surrounded by more extreme liberals than ever before in my life. The hatred expressed toward Bush on a daily basis is staggering. And while I realize that they are extreme, I hadn't realized just how extreme. Inundated with the Bush hate every day I began to think that the general population felt similar.
So you can imagine my shock to see that the projections were very different from what had become my reality.
I wonder how often we get lost in the political "reality" that surrounds us and lose sight of the big picture. So inebriated with the rhetoric from whichever side is most populous or vocal in whichever corner of the world we find ourselves, can we become distracted from what is inside each of us?
Certainly I don't have the answers, but realizing that what I thought to be truth was not only off, but off by a fair amount, was a bit of a wake up call.
*Gasp*
Why is BlueDev so taken aback by this you may ask.
Well the answer is simple. I live in Liberalville. Yep, I live in this incredible bubble of nearly manic liberalism. Heck, even the liberals here think Chapel Hill is a little far to the left. It is an interesting situation really. At school I am surrounded by more extreme liberals than ever before in my life. The hatred expressed toward Bush on a daily basis is staggering. And while I realize that they are extreme, I hadn't realized just how extreme. Inundated with the Bush hate every day I began to think that the general population felt similar.
So you can imagine my shock to see that the projections were very different from what had become my reality.
I wonder how often we get lost in the political "reality" that surrounds us and lose sight of the big picture. So inebriated with the rhetoric from whichever side is most populous or vocal in whichever corner of the world we find ourselves, can we become distracted from what is inside each of us?
Certainly I don't have the answers, but realizing that what I thought to be truth was not only off, but off by a fair amount, was a bit of a wake up call.
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