Yeah, recently I also started to feel like I have developed a cognitive dissonance when visiting many threads. Too much emotion, jumping on headlines, unnecessary or deliberate negativity, lack of historical perspective often derived from selectively distorted published historical "facts", and rigidity of opinions not based on or warranted by the real facts.
Otherwise good men and women continually voted for the lesser of two evils.
People hoodwinked into believing the ends justify the means. But what are the ends when the means -- voting for the lesser of evils -- leads to an evil end?
With each person saying their candidate is the lesser of evils, how can they all be right--especially since it begets evil? They cannot. Like religion. For each follower, their religion is the only true path to enlightenment. But how can every religion be the only true path to enlightenment? They cannot.
Voting for the lesser of evils always begets evil. The ends don't justify the means. (Those two sentences can't be honestly reconciled.) The ends justify the means only when the ends are intended to be evil. But somehow I don't think voters really intend an evil end to come from their vote. They just don't know any better.
Something to the effect of, doing the same thing repeatedly and expecting a different result is a sign of insanity. I call it voters' collective delusion.
Politics is not the solution. Politics is the problem.
Begin the transition with voting each and every incumbent out of office. Shine the spotlight of honesty on them with the shamnesty immigration bill. Like what's happening to the global warming hoax.
Value Destroyers
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Value Producers