It seems the time is getting ripe for the "big" bloggers on both sides to try an experiment - allowing significant bloggers from the other side to guest post on their blog on areas of interest that both bloggers can agree on. For example (and only for example), I suspect there's something that both Atrios and Instapundit blog about that they have similar opinions about. At some point, the personal demonization of opposing bloggers has to stop. It isn't nearly as effective to attack a person as it is to attack an idea if your goal is TO STOP THE IDEA FROM GAINING TRACTION in the long-run.
Not everything is about the pushbutton issues that each side keeps pressing. There has to be plenty of important things that are in the middle ground that the blogosphere doesn't highlight nearly as well - or else there isn't a middle ground at all, and this country is in the process of tearing apart. We ought to look for that middle ground for change at least sometimes, and the big bloggers could be the start of that.
If Atrios and Instapundit, for example, agreed on something important that should be changed for lobbying reform, and each pushed it, wouldn't it reverberate through the partisan blogosphere(s) to leaders of both parties? At some point, shouldn't bloggers consider the opportunity to work "across the aisle" and force change?
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