No. I can't stand it that so many Americans have fallen under the spell of a fraudster while others are sharing hateful memes online and think it is activism. I need stronger language, not weaker language.
I don't like the word "debate" because it makes me think of a high school debate where you are assigned which side of the issue and it is about to winning or losing.
in the current situation people feel they have exactly one candidate to vote for every time and thus we have no ability to vote out corrupt politicians. The political class wins and the rest of us lose.
(I am so concerned about people's inability or reluctant to change that I've experienced a call to the ministry and I'm working to use practices that I developed for selfish ends in the past to help others. Ideally when I offend you I want to strike you at the core and leave you haunted for months and not be able to think about the issue the same way ever again. If you're reacting to bits of trash somebody else stuck on me that I'm not aware of, I'm not going to get that strike in.)
Actually very few things have to be political. Politicising, that is rendering the concept to decision by a "body politic" is a choice that we're making right now, and we could choose to not do that. In fact, we have done that throughout our nation's history, and it's only in the last 20 years that I've seen the rise of "everything is political speech" to the degree that the brand of beans you buy in a store signals something to some group.
To wit there are a lot of totalitarians out there, and just because some group claims to be on your side or looking out for your interests versus some other group it doesn't mean they don't want your mind, body, and soul for their own purposes. We must take it upon ourselves to think for ourselves and to hold our own interests rather than to adopt the interests of the group we're in. Humans can engage in enterprise as a group for their own reasons, and we ought to embrace that instead of seeking to identify so wholly with the group that we lose ourselves.
