Does it seem like everything boils down to politics? When did that start? I am not sure if this is a new trend, or if I have just become overly sensitized to this. When I read a blog, listen to a newscast, meet someone new, read a book, anything; I immediately think of it in terms of where it falls on the political spectrum. Democrat or Republican, liberal or conservative, Socialism, Marxism, Capitalism, Fascism, Progressive, WHATEVER. I can’t help but start to put it into this or that box. Then, after I put it in the box, I start to think of which politician or talk show host would agree or disagree with it.
I don’t know when or why that has become the way I view the world, but, I want it to stop. Or at least I want to stop being so central it in my own set of classifications.
It wasn’t always like that. Remember when there would be a news event discussed, and it wouldn’t include political commentary? Doesn’t it desensitize us to the terrible actions that someone does, when it is followed by some talking head attributing it to reactions to this or that political party’s platform? If some person attacks some other person, do we need to assume that it is rooted in political idealisms that the two sides have that are irreconcilable?
I hope that this is just a problem that we have in our reaction to the events around us. That we are trying to look at the events around us and using personal politics as a way to try to make sense of the world. That’s what I hope. Because the alternative is that we are actually seeing these terrible things happen because of fundamental political ideologies. And that is scary, indeed.
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