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With a hoe against the Sun
The text below is my polemic with the essay published by Huffington Post in December of 2015. At that time I was a blogger at Huffington Post. They published all my submissions, but they rejected this one; without a word of explanation. Ms. Gregoire did not reply to my personal email either. My essay below was intended to be about climate change. Now, it is about open and honest debate about climate change. I am curios to hear your feedback.
Carolyn Gregoire tries to explain “Why Some Conservatives Can’t Accept That Climate Change Is Real.” The question is wrong; the answer is even worse.
Ms. Gregoire attacks conservatives without defining who they are. She assumes that this is known; she is wrong. The division between conservatives and liberals is a rift within a political establishment and does not reflect actual divisions within the American society. This rift is artificially kept alive by a quite populous league of intellectually barren political writers on both sides of the spectrum, whose only message is bashing conservatives or liberals respectively, while applauded by an audience without much intellectual sophistication. It is sad to see that a well-educated young political writer such as Ms. Gregoire so early settled so low.
Next, Ms. Gregoire imputes to her opponents that they cannot accept that climate change is real, implying that…