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Hi,
I was frankly surprised by the options available on the question, "How do you describe yourself politically?" I felt that none of the options described me. I would describe my politics as "progressive" or, as an acquaintance describes himself, a "moderate anarchist", but you offered no categories to the left of "liberal." When I go to my classes here at the University of Texas, hardly a hotbed of radical politics, and we talk about "neo-liberalism" and "liberal femininism" with dismissive or even hostile tones, it feels strange to be shoehorned into the "liberal" category. I do think that if you want demographic data like my ZIP code or my age, I should be given the opportunity to accurately represent my political leanings both to you and to your advertisers; you have given right-wingers a variety a ways to describe themselves - "conservative," "neo-conservative," and "libertarian" - why are you ignoring many people left of center? Perhaps you do not want people from my end of the political spectrum reading your blog. If that's the case, I'll gladly delete your feed from my RSS reader.
-C