Rigdonb
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So, I noticed a while back that people will take advantage of any tragedy to sell something. At the time it was america pins after 9/11 terrorist attack. It kinda struck me as messed up, but also it seemed as if most people were happy to go along with it. Everyone was Americaing out. Powerful times. I decided to start finding out what was up in the world and started trying political message boards. I started as nothing. After a short while I definitely found myself siding with liberals. So I was a liberal for a while. Then I moved to a more rural area and listened to their views and being somewhat tired of some of the weak points of liberalism, I decided to argue on the conservative side for a while. It was fun for a while but I just found I was having to stretch my beliefs to argue for that side as well. So here I am after idk 4-5 years of making my own side. I tend to fight for underdogs, because the people in power tend to go overboard.
About those tragedies. I started realizing that politics is really about selling shit to people. What better way to sell them something than to make it a serious issue. I started noticing that everything is becoming a life or death issue. Suddenly it dawned on me. That's the only way to get in power these days. You have to have something that gets people all worked up to get the money to get the power. That's why everything is all anger and fighting and disagreements these days. It was designed that way. It's all a tragedy.
To get power you need money to get money you need a cause. The best selling causes are the ones where you have an enemy to fight. That's our current political system. For the most part there are two sides. Anyone elses view is pretty well drowned out. Each side has a set of causes that are different from the others. Everyone on a side seems to think these causes are the very definition of their being. There is no way to compromise. It would be like compromising your deepest core belief.
This is all by design. Not a design that strives to make things better, but to give people power. Anyone with different ideas or moderate ideas either never get anywhere or will most likely become corrupted by the get money to get power situation. It makes people say and do dumb shit.
Now the system is nearing a breaking point and people in power are useless because they are afraid to give up their power. You can't reason with hardly anyone, because this tribal bullheaded I will double down on stupid before I ever agree with those idiots, mentality has gripped us.
Anyone else see it like this?
About those tragedies. I started realizing that politics is really about selling shit to people. What better way to sell them something than to make it a serious issue. I started noticing that everything is becoming a life or death issue. Suddenly it dawned on me. That's the only way to get in power these days. You have to have something that gets people all worked up to get the money to get the power. That's why everything is all anger and fighting and disagreements these days. It was designed that way. It's all a tragedy.
To get power you need money to get money you need a cause. The best selling causes are the ones where you have an enemy to fight. That's our current political system. For the most part there are two sides. Anyone elses view is pretty well drowned out. Each side has a set of causes that are different from the others. Everyone on a side seems to think these causes are the very definition of their being. There is no way to compromise. It would be like compromising your deepest core belief.
This is all by design. Not a design that strives to make things better, but to give people power. Anyone with different ideas or moderate ideas either never get anywhere or will most likely become corrupted by the get money to get power situation. It makes people say and do dumb shit.
Now the system is nearing a breaking point and people in power are useless because they are afraid to give up their power. You can't reason with hardly anyone, because this tribal bullheaded I will double down on stupid before I ever agree with those idiots, mentality has gripped us.
Anyone else see it like this?
