Recently I’ve received a spate of those nasty politically-naive, rather insipid yet clever emails that go round and round, forwarded from one to another to hundreds, spouting off about the woes of the country, the supposed sins of the Left, and all containing a germ of truth wrapped in misinformation, outrights lies, and substanceless assertion. Mostly I delete them without a second thought. They are noise, distraction, mud thrown into the waters of discourse where above all clarity should be our goal.
All of them have to do with what liberalism has done to our country. All of them are concerned with telling anyone who will listen what the Right is trying to “save us” from. …