I've spent equal time in both red and blue states, and I have noticed that they are guilty of the same things but in different ways. However, with the left, I have learned the hard way that they are not what they sell themselves as to the world. They don't even realize they are doing it, I believe. At least with the right, I always know where I stand with them, and I can handle their crazy; it is at least a bit more predictable and manageable.
I kind of feel like people who have shunned one side or the other aren’t really that interesting to the discussion. People used to be best buds with people with whom they had deep political disagreements. I feel like people identify their selves with their opinions to a pathological degree now, even though technically we should know better. We know more about psychology, and yet we do not.
It is like a religion to them now, there are a lot of these religions now, especially since regular church is going away. I've noticed how much people have this identity that is an ideology now. People disagree with me on this but I don't think I am wrong in my observations they have a belief system to go along with it all.
You may hit me with an alexithymia diagnosis. It's alexithymia all right ... when it takes three decades to process the facts of Pasternak's book "Doctor Zhivago." Three decades. And my assessment about the right-wing-left-wing distortion racket's racket hasn't changed much since I chanced on a movie called Doctor Zhivago, when I was three years old ... and I saw a haunting dramatization of the Russian Civil War ... which happened in 1918 but still instructs because it's another case of the extreme right wing & the extreme left wing coincidentally or "indirectly" using my head as a metaphorical European football. As in civil war Russia, the modern American ideologue (maybe left and/or right ]] values power over principles.
I've spent equal time in both red and blue states, and I have noticed that they are guilty of the same things but in different ways. However, with the left, I have learned the hard way that they are not what they sell themselves as to the world. They don't even realize they are doing it, I believe. At least with the right, I always know where I stand with them, and I can handle their crazy; it is at least a bit more predictable and manageable.
I kind of feel like people who have shunned one side or the other aren’t really that interesting to the discussion. People used to be best buds with people with whom they had deep political disagreements. I feel like people identify their selves with their opinions to a pathological degree now, even though technically we should know better. We know more about psychology, and yet we do not.
It is like a religion to them now, there are a lot of these religions now, especially since regular church is going away. I've noticed how much people have this identity that is an ideology now. People disagree with me on this but I don't think I am wrong in my observations they have a belief system to go along with it all.
"But I AM my current belief system! That's literally all I am nopooooooooooo"
Very well said. Well, except for the occasional sexual misbehaver, but that happens on both sides.
Total obnoxious deviants on both sides & the scamming grifters as well who love other people's money & figure all kinds of ways of getting it.
yep
You may hit me with an alexithymia diagnosis. It's alexithymia all right ... when it takes three decades to process the facts of Pasternak's book "Doctor Zhivago." Three decades. And my assessment about the right-wing-left-wing distortion racket's racket hasn't changed much since I chanced on a movie called Doctor Zhivago, when I was three years old ... and I saw a haunting dramatization of the Russian Civil War ... which happened in 1918 but still instructs because it's another case of the extreme right wing & the extreme left wing coincidentally or "indirectly" using my head as a metaphorical European football. As in civil war Russia, the modern American ideologue (maybe left and/or right ]] values power over principles.
Well put, Bob. If I were a shrink I would probably give you that diagnosis right off the bat.
“I just don’t like whichever one is currently trying the hardest to shove a great big ungreased acorn squash into my rectum.”
Exactly!
Alexithymia. Thank you.
New one for me, too!