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Originally Posted by Maru
Yes and I think that's true given the media bias (I feel). Although the average person discusses these things very freely in person in the US. At least in Texas and in much of the south.  Though I know some strong conservatives in MD (northeast part of the country). Though the younger ones are starting to lean much more Libertarian. We don't roll heads for their diverse and opinionated personalities in TX like some other places... In MD, I had to tip toe around anything that could lead to even potentially uncomfortable conversation. Don't even mention the fact you're female at my job to upper mgmt... can be seen as being volatile to upper mgmt. So, very little political discussion was ever had between myself and the general public... very tip toe-y... Of course MD has the NSA/DC and all (of which my husband's family knows well), so yeah... very hush hush actions by the govt and it's employees who largely inhabit the suburbs... I think that affects things immensely.
I felt very isolated from an intellectual stimulation POV (I held my own opinions just like anyone else), which is one reason to have moved back (including my husband's desire to get away from it). It is frustrating to be on the censored side, though personally I have no problem expressing myself when needed... I've always had the ability to find movements and people who believe in these things that I do such as freedom of expression and upholding certain tested values in our society... and the right wing establishment has had it's chances at recursive narratives as well over the decades.
The real culprit are these two political parties (primarily at the national level). They need to be dumped like dead weight and left to fend for votes and donations like peasants for what they have done to this country. Both use the public in very divisive manners (and conversely the media by association of "covering" this). With them gone, I think some narratives will change and we won't have these two caterers of establishment (read: injustices) sitting up there fanning the political tension pretending to be on the people's side... the media will follow the viewers...
I don't know why we put so much stock into these parties. For they strongly resemble mindsets and politics of yesteryear imo. They are not tapped into the pulse of how demographics and people's opinions have shifted so much today. We need to move on from that bollocks. But that's just my personal opinion. |
Very interesting to hear a perspective from over there.It sounds as if your views are not a million miles away from me.I also don't think the parties over here are in touch with the average joes concerns.It's either left or right with nothing in between when i think most people are in the grey area of no mans land in the middle.I have never voted Conservative but can't vote Labour at the moment either.I like many of Corbyns policies but also could never vote for many of them either.He would have us in debt,overun and defenseless whilst probably funding Hamas instead of Saudi Arabia.If our election was happening now I couldn't vote and don't think i will in 2020.Same if i was an American now.I couldn't endorse either candidate with my vote.