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Cocooned Liberals Are Unprepared for Political Debate

Cynical Mike Wrote: May 24, 2012 9:16 AM

I do find, at least within my circle of friends and peers, that they (and I) will seek to read the liberal point of view as well as our own. For example, I regularly read Politico.com and I also frequent CNN (sorry - I do skip MSNBC. they're too much for me). However, it does seem that most of the "other side", who trash Fox News 24-7, never watch it, and rely on what their compatriots say about it - which is self-propagating, isn't it?

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Cocooned Liberals Are Unprepared for Political Debate

It's comfortable living in a cocoon -- associating only with those who share your views, reading journalism and watching news that only reinforces them, avoiding those on the other side of the cultural divide.

Liberals have been doing this for a long time. In 1972, the movie critic Pauline Kael said it was odd that Richard Nixon was winning the election, because everyone she knew was for George McGovern.

Kael wasn't clueless about the rest of America. She was just observing that her own social circle was politically parochial.

The rest of us have increasingly sought out comfortable cocoons, too. Journalist...

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