05-22-2023, 05:24 PM
(05-22-2023, 04:03 PM)rothschild Wrote:(05-22-2023, 04:53 AM)Duchess Wrote: So many people find that appealing. It boggles the mind.
Stop and consider that a lot of people feel under assault by federal, state, and local government. In many cases I think that's entirely legitimate. It's not an accident that America is polarized, and the only possible reason for it is to undermine the public interest. Regardless of political affiliation, we have far more in common than our differences. The polarization causes people to focus on differences to the exclusion of commonality, which is disastrous. We're all being bled dry, but we're so consumed with bastardized politics that we're incapable of seeing what's really going on. Both sides rationalize this behavior because of rigid group identification, oblivious to the fact that community has mostly been destroyed, and without community we're defenseless against predatory corporations that are aligned with government.
Trump and the Republicans play to that, as do Democrats. That's how the game works, and has for a very long time. I feel sorry for the people that think that's bullshit because as bad as things are right now, it's going to get a whole lot worse. Rome's burning and we're doing nothing to put out the fire and apprehend the arsonists because we're too busy attacking each other.
Makes sense. Divide and conquer. Distract us from the rise of The New World Order.