The Partisanship has already set sail

Over at Revolutionary Moderation, Don expresses some misgivings about partisan divisions in the 'blogosphere'. I haven't joined Blogging New Democrats, but if they asked, yeah sure.

"I don't think the Canadian blogosphere dividing itself into teams is a positive change."

I hope Don doesn't take it personally, but I always get a giggle when anybody treats polarization like something that can be prevented, like a sunburn, vapour lock, or late fees at the video store. The truth is, you either polarize or someone polarizes you: after the second time I was legislated back to work, the fourth overheard conversation about a gay-bashing, and the fifth completely motionless homeless person lying prone on East Hastings, I completely gave up on trying to see the other side of the issue. Does anyone really think that the media-powered class and culture wars that pass for Canadian society give any quarter for compromise or objectivity?

Of course, in British Columbia, it doesn't take much to be branded 'partisan' - I can't think of anywhere else where teachers are labeled as such because they send notes home to parents attached to report cards with such blatantly partisan messages as "schools are being closed and class sizes are getting larger - call your MLA". Gordon Campbell says if his Liberals are re-elected, he'll ban the BC Teachers Federation from sending out that kind of treacherous and seditious correspondence.

Sarcasm? Well, that's still a choice...