The effect of bloggers

I have been active with many other blog sites recently.  Onethe right-wing ones I try to offer a polite counterpoint to the spew that is on display.  Being polite really seems to piss people off on these blogs.  Seems that unless they rant, they cannot speak.  There is a constant undertone of intolerance in the way they characterize Liberals and, in a growing number of cases, NDPers and Greenies.

And through all this, they muse that low voter turnout is the fault of the politicians and their handlers. At no point in time does it even dawn on them that maybe they, the bloggers, and the hyperbolic media may have a part in the problem.

One example was a female blogger who expressed her disgust at the result of the Ontario election of a government that supports "high" electricity prices and "high" unemployment, by declaring that she was moving to Greece.  When I pointed out to her that the Greek government has raised the electricity price 30% in three years and that the Greek unemployment rate was 15%, and that she may not like it there, she seemed to have a mini-stroke with the uncharacteristically short comment, "...never mind"!

Maybe bloggers and the media should look a bit harder into the mirror?  However, they may not like what they see.