Blogging Politics

Both Joe and Danny have recently expressed concerns about blogging politics.  Joe says:

If I wrote a lot about politics here, I could lose you as a reader. . .

Though I listen to and read a lot of news every day and feel very strongly about this year's election, there's nothing I can offer you haven't already heard. . .

So, between now and Election Day, this blog will be strictly politics-free.

Danny says:

I have tended to stay away from writing about the election just because a) politics can alienate people from my true objective, namely to chronicle and consider creative issues and b) I think there are a lot of better informed bloggers expressing my perspective far better than I can and c) I don't want to be diverted by responding to a lot of inflamed and irrelevant discussion on this topic. . .

Blogging is media. It's broadcasting. It's public. It's not journal keeping. People have short attention spans and they want to know when they log on, that they will get a certain type of experience. Deviations are disturbing.

Deviants are not.

This has been a concern to me, as well.  I know that my regular readers do not come here expecting a passionate rant on our political situation.  The first eight months I pretty much avoided the topic altogether, for some of the reasons cited above. 

It just all seems more urgent to me now -- so much at stake in the next few weeks.  My grief and fear -- yes, I think it is fear -- are less deniable.  So I obsess, and it has spilled into this place.

I am asking you -- not because I will necessarily do as you say, but because I want to know -- would you prefer that I keep these topics out of Watermark? Or talk about them less often; or, possibly (it is possible, I imagine -- people keep sending me material via email) more often?