Clowns Left and Right

A thought

Among thousands of protesters of whatever sincerity, only the most flamboyant draw the cameras, but--I have to wonder if the intellectual pictured on this entry's Left Wing believes himself a credit to his passion, if he can see himself as others see him...whether he thinks about such things at all. I wonder if it has occurred to him that he dissuades more than he persuades. I wonder.

Similarly, on the Right Wing: I wonder if the clown who writes the blog Antie Idiot's Aryan Rot-Piler has any idea that he is dismissed as a buffoon. (Despite his URL, there's no evidence he's ever heard of Will Rogers' "nice doggie" quote.) The validation he craves terribly comes only from wackos. He opposes anyone who smells capable of thought, and wonders why he loses the arguments he starts. I doubt it's his crudity or tunnel vision that makes him stupid; I more suspect that he results from some kind of Natural Selection for Stupidity working at Bloggery's outer fringes.