I've been thinking about this topic for a long time now, and I finally found someone to say exactly what I was thinking. Bill Maher put it so eloquently on Real Time a few weeks/months ago: "Everyone these days says that the way to bridge our frightful partisan divide is to talk to the other side so we can hear each other's point of view. No! That's exactly what you shouldn't do. It never works. No one ever flips to your side. Talk to them, yes. But not about politics." Holy christ I couldn't agree more. I don't know what it is about me personally, but I find myself constantly surrounded by people who want to talk politics, and by politics I mean Republican party talking points like how all immigrants are ISIS and how NASA invented climate change so it could sell more telescopes. One way to make American great again would be to retreat back to a time when politics wasn't talked about openly. I'd like that. #politics |