This is a good write-in by aforementioned Dr. Williams. The Journal Star's editorial page sees a lot of logomachy: Reps vs. Dems, Libs vs. Cons, Religion vs. Secular, &c. However, this write-in means exactly the opposite of what it says.
Let's all just shut up
Blue states, shut up. City dwellers, shut up. Europeans and their friends, shut up. Liberals, shut up. Intellectuals, shut up. Hollywood, shut up. Moore, shut up. Springsteen, shut up. Democratic senators, shut up. Critics of the Iraq war, shut up. Secular thinkers, shut up. Pro-choice advocates, shut up. Poor people, shut up. Gays, shut up.
Democracy, shut up.
The key to everybody shutting up would be everybody being able to live with one another's decisions. And that is not the case. So until that happens we have to live with hearing everyone else's sassholes. The more civilized we treat each other, the more we can learn from each other. No one is going to shut up because you told them to. If you don't like what point someone is talking about then you should be able to come up with a counter-point so intelligent that they shall reverse their thought and agree with you, or ignore it.
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