Politically Incorrect... when it comes to politics, why are you all so INCORRECT!?

"The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter." -Winston Churchill

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I have a well-documented history of being completely incapable of allowing strangers to be incorrect on the internet. It's almost always been like this, but as people have gotten more and more incorrect, and louder and louder about it, my need to uh... EDUCATE is nearly pathological at this point.

I say all of that to say, today there were at least three separate times (on three very different topics) that I wrote out an entire novel, decided the people I was, uh, EDUCATING likely couldn't pick up what I was putting down, so I just erased everything I'd just written. But now, I'm left with a belly full of rage, and a head full of statistics that I'd looked up, because lord knows I'm not going into these things half-assed. If you're going to catch one from me in the comments, you're getting actual data with sources cited! I was grinching to a couple family members, saying that I needed to just find an outlet where I could see the stupid person being stupid, do the research to respond the way I want to respond, but instead of wasting my uh, TEACHING PROWESS on those who are less than receptive, just put all of that information onto a page and get it out of ME. The response was "...uh, like a diary?" Sigh. Ok, I mean, yes. Sure. But that's not nearly as satisfying. That's the written equivalent of talking to yourself in the car. It's GOOD, but not great. I was looking for something at LEAST as good as talking to your dog... Maybe they get it, maybe they don't, but at least someone is listening.

Since LiveJournal is no longer a thing, I figured I'd just - yet again - resurrect this blog that has been my "xyz topic blog" for about 15 different topics. And rather than just trying to pretend I'm going to ever stay on (any singular) topic, I'll just lean into the eclectic mess that is my brain and this blog. I imagine the only common thread(s) will be rage and self-deprecation.