Discipline must be enforced, and Salon.com has taken up the role as ideological and partisan enforcer.
“Stop Snitching!” Salon’s Joan Walsh shouts at liberal pundits who note that Obamacare’s implementation is not going very well:
Those libertarian boys are nothing but TROUBLE! Then comes Tom Watson, who warns liberals worried about government spying on them not to talk to the boys on the other side of the tracks — that is, the libertarians:
In this same vein, a writer at Alternet warned liberal readers that libertarian writer Radley Balko was a libertarian who consistently worried about police abuse of power and overzealous prosecution, even when the defendant was unlikable.
Without Salon and Alternet, who knows what might happen — maybe trans-partisan cooperation on important issues!