Politics

I would love a world where I don’t real­ly have to write about pol­i­tics, per se. One where I could stick to social issues. I’m not real­ly all that inter­est­ed in tax codes or par­ti­san polemics. Peo­ple tend to get into ingroup/outgroup think­ing, aban­don nuance, and gen­er­al­ly act as if pol­i­tics were a reli­gion.

But, FUCK, the con­ser­v­a­tive par­ty in my coun­try (the U.S.) has decid­ed to go full fas­cist, be overt­ly racist, destroy civ­il rights, declare war on the LGBTQ+ com­mu­ni­ty, stoke every cul­ture war issue they can, dis­en­fran­chise BIPOC (who might vote against them) so they can cheat in future elec­tions, engage an entire news out­let to be their pro­pa­gan­da wing, ignore the con­sti­tu­tion when­ev­er it suits them, and throw them­selves in the mud and cry about how unfair they are being treat­ed any­time some­one points ANY of this out. 

Then they go and chose as their paragon a racist, misog­y­nist, big­ot, nar­cis­sist, rapist, who incit­ed insur­rec­tion to over­turn the legit­i­mate results of an elec­tion, and who is destroy­ing every alliance we have to put us in league with author­i­tar­i­an dic­ta­tor­ships, total­i­tar­i­an regimes, and places most guilty of human rights vio­la­tions. 

So I write about pol­i­tics.

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