Appreciate your honesty on this. I can't claim to have superior political acumen, but swimming ideologically upstream in many of the circles I move does give one a different perspective at least.
I found the #resistance hashtag both vainglorious and ridiculous. Even more ludicrous was #notmypresident from the same people who claim election deniers are villains.
Beyond just Brexit and Trump, the assumption in recent years that elections only go a particular way due to manipulation, fraud, other skulduggery, is really toxic. Because it removes any impetus to actually ask whether what your side is offering the voter is perhaps not working.
It is only by listening to the diverse opinions of others that you realise how little you really know and understand. This makes you think and question your own understanding of the world, which will inevitably lead to personal growth... and when it all gets too much; go birdwatching.
Appreciate your honesty on this. I can't claim to have superior political acumen, but swimming ideologically upstream in many of the circles I move does give one a different perspective at least.
I found the #resistance hashtag both vainglorious and ridiculous. Even more ludicrous was #notmypresident from the same people who claim election deniers are villains.
Beyond just Brexit and Trump, the assumption in recent years that elections only go a particular way due to manipulation, fraud, other skulduggery, is really toxic. Because it removes any impetus to actually ask whether what your side is offering the voter is perhaps not working.
It is only by listening to the diverse opinions of others that you realise how little you really know and understand. This makes you think and question your own understanding of the world, which will inevitably lead to personal growth... and when it all gets too much; go birdwatching.