Where
do you start talking about American politics?Where do you end? You
can enter and exit at any point in the vacuum of the space-time
continuum like a neutrino, heard by nobody and affecting nothing. The
great wasteland of American politics in the 21st century
is that way because of the polarized division of everything into two
opposite parties. It is an extreme polarization because both parties
and all of the politicians in them keep discovering that they can say
and do anything and still get elected by their party. Given this
off-the-rails behavior, the two parties have arbitrarily occupied the
two most vapid niches that any political party in history has ever
occupied. They are:
Anti-society (Republicans)
Pro-society (Democrats)
Furthermore,
nothing much changes no matter which party has the majority, since
they hold everything in deadlock. Other countries stand in amazement
at the state of the US, but they have to understand one crucial
thing: it's all talk. We just…
It's
the year 2021. Why are people still racist? We have occasion, over and over, to keep wondering. The
Washington Post pondered the question during the Trump administration, when the 2017 Charlottesville uprising showed us that America's ugly KKK roots are still alive and well. Of course, the WaPo arrive at no answer, only a bald examination of the puzzle. Racism, and all forms of bigotry, make no sense, and yet they seem to be hard-wired into our brains. In fact, recent years show that we divide ourselves along an increasing spectrum of arbitrary differences. Ageism has reared its head with the perpetual generation war. We just got through talking about how
politically divided the "United" States is. We sit around in our idle time and make up more ways to divide us: rich vs. poor, dog people vs. cat people, whether or not we put pineapple
on pizza. People:
Sort us into two groups, and we will find a reason to hate each
other. Since we will find endless reasons to hate each other,…
