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I blew it.
You rightly hold SoylentNews to a high standard and I let you down when I merged three different political stories into a single story.
Rushing to get out the door to get to work, seeing the story queue running out, having seen the interest in the UK elections in our IRC channel, having heard much on the radio concerning former FBI Director Comey's testimony, seeing a story appear on a likely nomination for that vacated FBI post, and aware of the guideline on only one Politics story per day — I made a hurried decision to merge all three stories together.
The community rightly pointed out the shortcomings in that decision. Rest assured I won't make THAT decision again!
In retrospect, it would have been much better if I released two separate stories — one with the UK Election vote, and another with a merge of the FBI-related stories with, say, a 12-hour spacing between them.
It is a privilege to volunteer for this site, one that I do not take lightly. I let down the community — you deserve better. Trust that I have taken this lesson to heart and will strive to do better going forwards.
--martyb
[n1: There will be a UK election story coming in the next day or so, when more details are available. The majority of the coverage so far is speculation and reports of agreements have been retracted.]
(Score: 2) by wisnoskij on Monday June 12 2017, @02:51PM
The Left-right dichotomy is completely worthless, especially now, in defining American politics. The two parties have the exact same policies but with different target audiences.
It is particularly ridiculous now since the Republicans just elected a hard core liberal democrat to president, and the only serious democratic candidates were anti-gay marriage. One small government pro-wall candidate who objected to the government legislating marriage and the other a war hungry career politician who spent her entire career stating that marriage is between a man and a woman.
The only notable difference is in their audiences. The Republican's campaign for low to middle income Americans. The Democrats specialize in Academia, Big Business, and Minorities. This is often simplified into the Urban-Rural divide. Something that mirrors UK politics.