Occupy Underground

Politics has always been shaped by forceful shoves, by money, to the right.

I think the reason things are going left now, though, is hopeful: ignorance simply cannot stand in the path of the democratization of information that is the interwebs. It is getting too easy to be informed. No amount of idiocy is safe when one has access to a search engine. I used to argue a lot with conservatives in the Iraq War runup and start. Many were older. Now I see many of the idiots are young, often high school age. This is incredibly hopeful to me, because I see those loudest are also demographically incredibly outnumbered. And likely to change their minds the longer they try to sustain their beliefs which will be constantly challenged with cognitive-dissonance-causing truth.