I encourage everyone to try to -understand- things in life.
Take politics, let's spend our time and energy trying to understand what's truly going on, instead of spending it expressing our opinions.
Rank your top 3 political issues that you care about the most:
1) Less war (and profit incentives for war)
2) Money in politics (touches everything)
3) Higher quality food supply (addressed in point 2)
I think most people would agree with the phrase: "seek first to understand, then to be understood." But why do so few people apply it?
It's because we get too emotional right?
But actually my disappointment isn't in those people as much as the people who are in upper middle class because they don't have any excuse. They have cognitively demanding and complex jobs and are capable enough to be in the upper echolons of society yet they can't figure out that they're supposed to vote for the candidates that don't take money from special interests. It's almost literally that simple
I guess it's my belief that if you studied American politics like it was another subject like physics or math, you would quickly learn how the system works, that both candidates are being bought by the same people and that corporations run the government, etc.
it's strange to me that well educated people capable of obtaining degrees, challenging jobs, raising families, aren't able to study a subject which has immense affect on their lives for more than five minutes and then they yell their opinions out with such confidence you would have thought they spent their entire lives studying this for hours upon hours every day.
@frankdpi Isnโt it wonderful to be free to believe whatever you want and then say it in public when you donโt know for sure what you believe is true, no matter how it effects others or the society?