When I clicked on the link for Young Liberals, I decided to keep an open mind. I like reading about politics – any politics – because it’s interesting to hear other people’s views, no matter how much they differ from my own. But, sometimes, these political weblogs can become preachy, scary, or downright boring. I always enter politically based weblogs with a bit of trepidation and caution.
However, I didn’t need to feel at all cautious when reading Young Liberals. If you can’t tell by the title what the political views of the authors are, they are liberals and they try to present their views with humor. The effort at humor worked; I found myself chuckling, giggling, and shaking my head at entries such as “Christophenia,” and “The Machine Goes On.”
While the authors don’t seem to know each other well, and from the entries I read, rarely make references to each other, they do share a common belief system and their writing styles compliment each other. The authors also tried to add personal entries about their everyday lives every once in a while. I found these entries helped to give more substance to their voices; they didn’t seem like nameless entities on their soap boxes, preaching about politics, but came across as intelligent, real people.
The only thing that kept me from giving this weblog a 5.0 was the design. While it does have a neat layout that compliments the site’s content, the entries’ text was so much larger than the headers and footers that sometimes, it was hard to see where one entry ended and the next began. When I initially looked at the web page, I thought that it was just one very long entry on the main page!
But, beside that little, nit-picky detail, I thoroughly enjoyed my read of Young Liberals. In a day and age where people keep whimpering that the youth of today don’t care about politics or their country, it’s good to see a weblog like Young Liberals out there, proclaiming that the youth of today do care.The Young Liberals