I avoid discussing politics in general. I don’t have a core belief. I am a registered Democrat but that is really a reaction against the extremes of the other side, I could care less most days. I was inspired by Obama and still hold out hope, but i have a libertarian impulse that gets a little ill thinking that my whole life is going to spent at the fucking DMV version of health or registering to walk down the street or of this or of that or whatever.
But I said something nasty about Ted Kennedy on my FaceBook page and ten people dumped me as a friend. I have over 1000 friends – most of whom, yeah, I have never met, they are not REALLY my friends but I promote my writing and publishing and curating on FaceBook pretty successfully. I kinda don’t care, but it made me realize that people take politics seriously … it supplants the religious urge in people. People treat politics like sports. Democrats are your team and you root for them regardless of whether they are correct becasue, hey, go team.
Well, I am spiritually satisfied and I have a blind passion for one sports team, so politics lately has sickened me, really, as there is NO discourse , just shouting and tarring and feathering and genuflecting for your team and howling in rage against their team.
Ted Kennedy was not a nice man except when satisfied by his hold on power. Ick.