Are we going to talk about that thing that no one's talking about (3 Viewers)

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Madmarsha said:
Ya putting some words in my mouth there, but I am quite sure any further discussion is off limits for this board.
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Nah you're good with me. I'm just trying to understand. No hate
 
DerrickB said:
Nah you're good with me. I'm just trying to understand. No hate
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Gotcha. Still, I'm going to deflect your actual question and say this. I've always had opinions about worldly things but wouldn't necessarily say I loved to talk politics. I knew my Dad was GOP and that he always made a point of voting, but he and I wouldn't really talk politics either.

Then I can remember getting a tad older and having a discussion with an adult who decidedly was expressing some political opinions and then made a startling admission: THEY NEVER VOTED. I thought that was ludicrous. How can you be so vociferously opinionated and then completely opt out of the civic process? I have been a sporadic voter myself but that conversation always stuck with me.

Anyway, I don't really like politics and don't really consider myself political but yet I obvs do talk about it. Politics is an ugly business always but especially these last 8 years. I am 60 years old. Lived through the 1960s but blissfully unaware of how turbulent a period of time that was. I have no interest in becoming radicalized or "boxed in" to either side. Never did. However, I mos def "identify" more as Republican; and after Saturday, I and a lot of others have felt, for whatever reason, it was time to stop whispering it and just come out and state it. Taking the measure of a person isn't predicated upon what box they tick.
 
guidomerkinsrules said:
I actually woke up this morning thinking we HAVE to be nearing some saturation point - the human body is not built to handle so much stress so continuously- especially a stress that we (by and large) are manufacturing
Maybe there’s a chance we arrive at a collective ‘chill out’ phase
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I just referenced in my post the '60s cos that's the era I've been wondering in my head we can equate these last 8 years to and how we got from that to the '70s. Not that the '70s was "chilling out" but I definitely grew up more laissez-faire as a teenager than radicalized as the '60s teenagers grew up.
 
Madmarsha said:
Gotcha. Still, I'm going to deflect your actual question and say this. I've always had opinions about worldly things but wouldn't necessarily say I loved to talk politics. I knew my Dad was GOP and that he always made a point of voting, but he and I wouldn't really talk politics either.

Then I can remember getting a tad older and having a discussion with an adult who decidedly was expressing some political opinions and then made a startling admission: THEY NEVER VOTED. I thought that was ludicrous. How can you be so vociferously opinionated and then completely opt out of the civic process? I have been a sporadic voter myself but that conversation always stuck with me.

Anyway, I don't really like politics and don't really consider myself political but yet I obvs do talk about it. Politics is an ugly business always but especially these last 8 years. I am 60 years old. Lived through the 1960s but blissfully unaware of how turbulent a period of time that was. I have no interest in becoming radicalized or "boxed in" to either side. Never did. However, I mos def "identify" more as Republican; and after Saturday, I and a lot of others have felt, for whatever reason, it was time to stop whispering it and just come out and state it. Taking the measure of a person isn't predicated upon what box they tick.
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Gotcha
 
@Andrus , I knew what I was doing, I was attempting to murder this thread. You just saved its life!
 
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