I disagree as I've said. What these folks do is to sanction correctness by identifying what is cool and not cool. Cool people want to believe the cool things. These guys affirm beliefs similarly as conservative jocks do and thus have a powerful effect on social opinion. Liberals, especially are prone to "cool factor" groupthink more than any other group in my opinion.
I would go so far as to say that Stewart and Colbert are leaders of the youthful, liberal, anti-conservative crusade in the US. If I were running a political campaign or involved in a movement these two guys would be in my top 10 of people I would want to influence or exploit. Kevin Billy is right above... people like John Stewart and Steven Colbert (I'm a much bigger fan of the latter myself) can't be the actual leaders of a movement like what we need. The job of satirists is to use their satire to point out absurdities in our world, and they (especially Colbert) do that amazingly well. They can,however, goad things in the right direction... and help lay the groundwork for something to come along and try to break the back of the two party system... organizing the vital center against the left and right, and working towards making it so the center has nearly as much of an equal representation in Washington as the left and right do. -- Centroids: The Center of the Radical Centrist Community <[email protected]> Google Group: http://groups.google.com/group/RadicalCentrism Radical Centrism website and blog: http://RadicalCentrism.org -- Centroids: The Center of the Radical Centrist Community <[email protected]> Google Group: http://groups.google.com/group/RadicalCentrism Radical Centrism website and blog: http://RadicalCentrism.org
