Why I blog

Thivai Abhor of Dialogic (a past member of The Independent Voter Webring) wants to know why people like me blog.

The short answer is summed up by fellow Oregon Indie Ron Beasely's tagline over at Middle Earth Journal: Online Pamphleteers. Political blogs are the modern day equivalent of the revolutionary pamphleteers from the very beginning of our nation's history. Nothing more and nothing less.

Oh sure, many of us have delusions of grandeur, or at least hope to hit the big time where everyone waits with baited breath to read what we have to say. But at the end of the day each of us are simply digital pamphleteers voicing our opinions and hoping to sway public opinion for what we perceive to be the good of our nation. All of which sets us apart as a distinct subset of bloggers, in my humble opinion. All of those high-tech gadget blogs, the myriad personal diary blogs and all of the other nonpolitical blogs are really a horse of a very different color, so to speak. I really don't think that their motivations or views on why they blog are akin to that of we political bloggers.

Digital political pamphleteers, that's what we are.