Why not, exactly? Love is the highest virtue - and love is not being "unbiased."I'm put in mind of Seven Stars for Aslan, a thread by Nattie Shea - a homeschooler at the time. You can read that thread and critique it; it's fine work for a HS student. But Nattie Shea turns out to be (as of that writing) eight or nine years old. Nattie Shea wanted to be judged without reference to her age, and the work was good for anything less than college-level work. But it reads entirely differently if you understand that the writer was literally in diapers seven years before she wrote it.
As long as you are in your teens, adults will make allowances and be the more impressed with good writing when they know that allowances properly should be made. Nothing else makes sense to an adult. It's easy for a conservative adult to be impressed with a teenager who articulates a sense of historical perspective as clearly as you did. After all, we're used to seeing millionaire journalists on TV (you mentioned Phil Donahue) who by comparison strike us as raving idiots.
Not that I had any reason to suspect that any allowance at all was called for, when I read your excellent piece.
I know. We just tend to joke with each other that way. I saw that Aslan thread; somehow, it doesn't surprise me that a young'un wrote it. Excellent piece.