NB: at the time of publishing this note Barack Obama has been declared President-elect of the US. Also, Luis Fortuño became governor-elect of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico. jrr
As we get close to election day we notice an increasing hostility towards Barack Obama and the Democratic Party. It is more evident and nasty towards the democratic presidential candidate, branding him - of all labels - a socialist. For lack of a better word, this is just plain absurd.
Read this exceptional article by Adam Serwer in The American Prospect.
As annoying and unfair as I find this it doesn't bother me as much as it concerns me (check out this article). Living in Puerto Rico, were political intolerance in the discussion of the simplest of issues is disturbingly normal (a practice, by the way, instituted by pro-statehood activists in the second half of the 1990s only to find it continued by certain elements of the pro-commonwealth camp in the first four years of the 21st Century, and also - alarmingly - by the institutionalized pro-independence movement directed at non-affiliated independence activists) I had my fair share of it and am not surprised by it nor used to it. In all its forms, intolerance is distressing.
May intolerants in the United States reflect on their un-american thoughts and actions and choose to join the rest of their compatriots in the historic journey that is about to take place.
As we get close to election day we notice an increasing hostility towards Barack Obama and the Democratic Party. It is more evident and nasty towards the democratic presidential candidate, branding him - of all labels - a socialist. For lack of a better word, this is just plain absurd.
Read this exceptional article by Adam Serwer in The American Prospect.
As annoying and unfair as I find this it doesn't bother me as much as it concerns me (check out this article). Living in Puerto Rico, were political intolerance in the discussion of the simplest of issues is disturbingly normal (a practice, by the way, instituted by pro-statehood activists in the second half of the 1990s only to find it continued by certain elements of the pro-commonwealth camp in the first four years of the 21st Century, and also - alarmingly - by the institutionalized pro-independence movement directed at non-affiliated independence activists) I had my fair share of it and am not surprised by it nor used to it. In all its forms, intolerance is distressing.
May intolerants in the United States reflect on their un-american thoughts and actions and choose to join the rest of their compatriots in the historic journey that is about to take place.
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