Funny how the political becomes personal

[doxaholic 252]

A friend of mine sent this to me this week i laughed so hard.

http://distractify.com/trending/2017/01/10/guy-shuts-down-obamacare-rant

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[Cander 66]

Did anyone really vote FOR someone in this election? Or against someone?

[OKCPirate 5,323]

@@Cander - this is the first election I can remember where the vast majority would have gone with a none of the above option.

[4MRB4PHOTO 3,899]

To paraphrase a comical quote. "Politics, it comes from the Latin root "Poli" meaning many and "tics" meaning blood sucking creatures".

[DeletedMember 715]

@@Odie - I'm not a Trump apologist by any stretch of the imagination, but I'm getting a little tired of the vitriol against him before he has even taken office.

I hear some version of this quite often, but do feel compelled to point out that a lot of the vitriol against him is based on his actual actions (tweets, press conferences, etc). Much of it isn't theoretical, based on what he MIGHT do in office, but critical of things he is currently doing/saying.

Personally, I can not stand the man. I am afraid of what damage he may do given his history of being very thinned skinned and verbally reactionary.

However, that is no way means I want him to fail. In fact, the opposite. There is nothing more i would like than to be completely wrong on this guy and have him be the greatest president in American history. We all win in that scenario. No one wins if it goes the way I imagine it will.

But getting back to your original point - I'm not sure it matters. Even when discussed rationally and intelligently, I have almost never seen anyone actually change their mind on a political topic. We live in an age where confirmation bias seems to be at an all time high. Unless I can find it on Fox News or Drudge, I can not find a source to quote that will ever seem to satisfy my friends on the right (this goes for the left too, I just am generally arguing with them less). If I post something from what I consider a reputable news source (CNN, Forbes, Politico, NPR, BBC, etc) they always scream that these are biased liberal media sources and therefore they reject the argument.

Unfortunately, this has recently been reinforced by our president elect. In his first news conference since the election he called CNN "Fake News". I believe this to be dangerous rhetoric as suppressing the media will not serve us well in the long run.