Politics used to be good fun. It isn't now.
Politics, as we know it today, has been hijacked by screaming ideologues of the right and the left.
Neither can be trusted. Neither can be made sense of. Neither is interested in anything other than TOTAL WORLD DOMINATION of public discourse for their own murky purposes. Both grind their ideological axes exceedingly shrilly. Their all-encompassing background screech makes reason flee and rational people fall silent.
They give me a headache.
I don't much care about the Right. In my experience, right-wingers have always been looney tunes in a self-serving, cat's-paw-for-the-would-be-elite sort of way. I am comfortable in my faith that their hidden agenda will inevitably support policies that support middle-aged white guys who want to retain their privileged rung at the top of the social ladder. No mystery there.
But the Left? Holy-crapoly, what the heck can we to make of the Left?
They support the most backward, repressive social organizations on Earth simply because they are anti-American, anti-Western and -- dare I say it? -- anti-liberal. They appear to hate all industrial workers because industrial workers don't have advanced academic degrees in the social sciences or liberal arts. They despise middle-class people because middle-class people are so boringly WalMart. They dabble in a deep-ecology philosophy that urges the extermination of "surplus" populations, loves trees more than people and advocates artisan beaded bags over the advancement of human civilization.
For them, Hillary Clinton was too old and too female to be president. Autoworkers are too redneck to care about. Rural communities are too declasse to survive. All business operations are multinational greed machines. Israelis are evil. Palestinians are plucky. Iran is a hoot. America is always wrong. And the murderous Taliban are just a bunch of big-hearted freedom fighters with whom we should sit down and talk.
What a crock of knee-jerk stupidity.
Enough of these ideologues.
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