Ugly title.
Seems like a good way to test an idea is in extreme situations.
Dire, difficult situations.
I think about politics everyday. I'm no intellectual. I'm curious and
empathetic.
I was intuitively liberal before I was aware of the definitions of the
two parties.
At some awkward age I began to believe that striving to understand and
include other people served my own interest. I wanted to feel connected.
Judging someone or groups mostly turned out to be a manifestation of my
own weirdness.
Many years of couples therapy helped me realize that we all have our own movies playing. A story we hold onto to protect ourselves. But there's something in between us. An unknown territory.
Liberals believe we might find a common ground in the middle
Conservatives seem to believe that their beliefs are finite...so anyone that doesn't agree with them is a communist. An atheist. Anti american. Against families and sunshine.
At the end of the day, how do we measure each parties policies? The rational measure to me is how are peoples physical lives affected? That points us to the poor and the middle class. Which party looks to the less powerful.
The Republicans claim that their policies will ultimitly help all of us...but they don't. Liberal policies help the middle class and the poor. But the cheaters keep winning...
I feel crazy confused right now. America is an amazing beatiful experiment. How is it that we have so much freedom and so much fear and hatred. That's the confusion I refer to with a moral compass in a pool of shit metaphor.