Good post. I am not political. Never have been, ever. It doesn’t mean I can’t understand it, but I don’t look at events, plans of action, or interactions in a political way, I look at them in a personal way.
I guess it is that I am an open book, which occasionally puts me at a disadvantage, but the positive side is, people from all sides tend to deal with me the same way.
I also have a trait that makes me a bit irritated, but has turned out to be a positive thing over the years-I have absolutely no capability at maintaining a poker face.
My face absolutely and transparently shows my every emotion from anger, puzzlement, and irritation, to joy and happiness.
You can imagine what this does in married life. But in work, it is kind of interesting, and I only came to realize this fully in the last couple of years, when my boss told me one day he wanted me to turn on my camera for a contentious video conference.
Almost everyone always turns theirs off, and I am the only one who almost always has it on...turns out he uses me to convey emotion in those kinds of situations! My brain is so un-political (even when it damn well should be) that I am a disadvantage when viewing political events.
It is in this way that I so appreciated your post. My brain simply does not think in political terms. I grasp it when it is explained to me, and it is always a bit of a revelation. But my mind simply does not go there on its own and reason out political aspects. If it does, it like a blind man finding a nut.
And I appreciated your description of Trump.
👍 Welcome to the War for America.