tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5518122161715399657.post5306821650806124840..comments2023-08-06T10:03:00.038-05:00Comments on POSSIBLY IRRITATING ESSAYS: Where Writing, Christianity, and Speculative Fiction Interact : POSSIBLY IRRITATING ESSAYS: Plot and Election 2012GuyStewarthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01268114053763665577noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5518122161715399657.post-28439952409138294332012-11-05T12:56:45.461-06:002012-11-05T12:56:45.461-06:00I responded via email:
"THANKS...I was begin...I responded via email:<br /><br />"THANKS...I was beginning to feel truly alienated from my culture. To know that others are struggling with this election doesn't solve the problem, but it makes me think that I'm not going crazy."<br />GuyStewarthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01268114053763665577noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5518122161715399657.post-16040092591836173872012-11-05T12:55:29.078-06:002012-11-05T12:55:29.078-06:00Daniel Gabrielson tried to post this and emailed i...Daniel Gabrielson tried to post this and emailed it to me as well. It did not make it to the COMMENT file, so I copied it from his email and am posting it here:<br /><br />"Your latest “possibly irritating essay” really hit on something that I had not previously been able to put my finger on about the tone of the current election campaign. By the day before an election, I am ALWAYS sick of the whole election cycle, but this year seems to have hit new lows (at least in my lifetime). I have yet to hear either candidate suitably address the challenges facing our country, or (realistically) provide a blueprint for moving forward. <br /><br />The only time I recall feeling that our nation was this divided was during the Vietnam war—the difference then was that one could almost tell political affiliation simply by looking at a person (or maybe that was simply my youthful myopia), but now I too am very cautious about voicing opinions—especially since my own opinions vary back & forth across the already-defined party spectrum. I hate the notion that there is a laundry list of positions on issues, & each of us is meant to select list Red or list Blue."<br />GuyStewarthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01268114053763665577noreply@blogger.com