From the mind of critic: “If many of us in the last few weeks, months and years have asked ourselves how politicians could possibly say the most biased, outrageous, offensive and vial things, have we asked ourselves the same questions? Do we believe the system has been so skewed from the beginning, that office holders can say anything they want, because as long as they keep throwing crumbs, the people will put up with it? Do we think that this acting out is so far from what a normal person would do, that it leads us to believe these polticians can’t be human? Or do we see politicians acting out in this way, as a natural outcropping of the way we’re been treating eachother for generations, which makes politicians not only humans, but it makes them us? We’re all familiar with the saying that we don’t talk about religion and politics with friends and family. Maybe we’ve grown so used to not talking about it, that we don’t realize that not only have others been talking about it, but after watching all the voluntary heads that have been stuck in the sand, are actively and continously scheming how to control it. Maybe we’ve been doing this so long that we all resort to personal attacks, because we’ve blinded ourselves to what we’re actually saying, and only paying attention to who we’re saying it to. Maybe we think this is conversation, when it’s actually the complete opposite. To stop politicians from saying vial things, we need to stop saying vial things. And to do that, we need to be open and honest about how we feel on any subject. What we think we should never talk about, might be what saves us. The unknown is only scary because we see it that way. If we change our perceptions, we can change the world” 🙂