Okay. So the Prairie Times Advertisers are the reason I get this political fishwrap in my mailbox free – unrequested – every month, featuring diatribes and screeds from every present and past Elbert County Democrat Party official, Leftist candidate, former Leftist candidate, anti-oil&gas fractivist, and private-property-confiscating communitarian planner.

Fair enough. At least now I know who to talk to about it.

Maybe if each person out there picks just one advertiser to encourage, perhaps this excuse for news can develop into something worth reading some day.

“In America today we have television and the Internet, vehicles of instant mass communication unimagined previously.  One might say that these prove Madison wrong.  What do they show in the political debate except a clamor of distortion and cock-and-bull, self-serving and partisan?  But does it not often happen that someone gets a camera and a microphone into a political meeting not meant for the whole public?  And when that happens, one hears a tone that is very different.  The person who yesterday was saying in a televised interview that he had great respect for his opponents and hoped to reach agreement with them says in private company that he hopes to push them in the ditch.  Open communication must be more civil; it must appeal to a wider sense of justice.  The effort to seem fair elevates the public debate and confines our speech to more reasonable points.  Also it is harder to get away with pushing someone in the ditch if you have promised not to do it.”

Larry P. Arnn, The Founders’ Key, 2012, p. 104.

See you on Bambuser. . .