[Side Rant] Take Your ‘Ideological Purity’ and Shove It …

I used to like Howard Dean back in the day, then he became a sellout. Don’t decry ideological purity when you’re a dirty lobbyist, man.

Right now,  I have a million thoughts swimming through my head. I’m waaaaay behind this week and I’ve been procrastinating, but I didn’t want this day to go by without making a post. What is this about? As the title suggests, this post is partly about the meme of “ideological purity.”

This past day, I decided to debate another lefty. We have some key disagreements about policy (and recent history) but so far, our discussions have been pleasantly civil.

However, some of the things we were talking about make me want to go off on a rant.