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Originally Posted by Ralph Sir Edward
Well, I just stuck what I thought was a good news item, on the thread, lacking a better place for it...
Phsrynk, what you have read is a microcosmism of the big picture politics you dislike.
In one corner, you have people who want to be left alone to live their lives, to succeed or fail, on their own terms. They may or may not be concerned about the big picture future, but either way they want their choices to be their own. If they want help, they'll ask for it.
In the other corner, you have people who are concerned about the big picture failings of the society, and want to make the world a better place. And the best way to do that is to use power (whether it be State, evangelical, incentivization, or any other) to get people to change. Whether they want to or not. Whether it's actual good for them in the long term (which at the time can only be a projection). These people don't value the viewpoints of the leave-me-alone types, and tend to look down their noses at them (they're too simple to understand the failing that need to be changed).
The current political situation has come about because enough of the leave-me-alone types have gotten fed up with having their lives twisted, turned, and doubled over by the consequences of the world-savers. It turns out that there are a lot of them, about as many as there are world-savers.
The world-savers have been used to a monopoly on control, which has been successfully challenged. The response is - Gasp...How dare they. Back in your place! And hence the gridlock, and each side digging in, and the nasty politics you've seen.
I obviously am in the leave-me-alone camp.....
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Well said. Could you make room by your campfire?