Is that somehow you have gone over a tipping point. You have gotten to a place where you can no longer recognize hypocrisy, which is the very things that's wrong with a bipartisan system. You have become so partisan in your thinking you don't recognize it in yourself. You have become the very thing you rail against. Groupthink, that's you. An enabler and supporter of totalitarianism, that's you. A non-critical thinker, that's you. A coup supporter, that's you. A vote suppressor, that's you. A justifier of wanton, reckless violence, that's you. Tal about "dark money" that's you and yours, but you won't acknowledge it. You label things with terms and rhetoric you'd never place on your own even though it's the same thing. A truth teller, that is NOT you.
We really don't. I think social media is what's responsible. It's got us thinking that we need to voice our opinion on everything that happens and everything that said and done when really we don't need to at all. And then we feel the need to respond to others' responses. Why? Our opinion about what goes on in the world isn't always relevant, is frequently not well enough informed, and is almost always precipitous and unnecessary. And the media feels like they have so much air and space to fill, because now news must be 24/7 and everywhere, that they fill interviews, columns, talks shows, etc. with opinion. They ask people what they think about what someone else said or posted and demand a reaction. What does it really matter what someone else thinks and why must others always weigh in? Take, for example, Naomi Osaka pullout. She said what she said, she gave her reasons, accepted the fine, and that should have been the end of it. But, no. It has to get talked to...
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