Do you think the current obsession with politics is sort of weird?

I am not that old, and yet I sort of regard it as a distant memory when the center of people’s lives was family, friends, career and those very human and personal things that give meaning to life.

Now, more and more it’s all about politics. Sometimes even discarding those human values for politics. Personal example: My aunt and uncle (my parents are dead) always have a cocktail party over Thanksgiving. Our family has always been diverse in it’s politics (including my late Mom and Dad). This year, their daughter, home from her PhD program, refused to attend. She said she did not want to associate with the “other side”, because it made her feel unsafe [a family function!]. One of my golfing buddies quit playing with our group for essentially the same reason-well, in his case it was not because he felt unsafe. It was because he got pissed off at a friend he has known and enjoyed for 15 years! Over politics.

And for what? So that politicians can exploit, divide and conquer even more effectively? And rest assured they do just that.

In my opinion, that is pretty weird.

In fact, I think it is sick.