{"id":36090,"date":"2018-07-20T08:59:44","date_gmt":"2018-07-20T13:59:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=36090"},"modified":"2018-07-20T08:59:44","modified_gmt":"2018-07-20T13:59:44","slug":"lunatic-politics-part-2-its-becoming-impossible-to-have-a-conversation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=36090","title":{"rendered":"Lunatic Politics (Part 2) \u2013 It\u2019s Becoming Impossible to Have a Conversation"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Lunatic Politics (Part 2) \u2013 It\u2019s Becoming Impossible to Have a Conversation<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/header>\n
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More and more people are becoming aware of and concerned about the level of political dialogue going on right now. We\u2019ve gotten to a point where I\u2019m seeing almost no intelligent debate about any serious issue. Russiagate now consumes such a massive amount of our collective energy, it feels we\u2019ve become nearly incapable of discussing anything else. Even worse, Russiagate has morphed into a creepy D.C. establishment religion where merely demanding evidence for the wild claims being made gets you labeled a traitor or Putin agent. Ironically, average Americans don\u2019t care about the issue.<\/p>\n

When Gallup<\/em><\/a> recently asked Americans what\u00a0the most important (non-economic) problem facing the country today is, the amount of people saying Russia was so low they couldn\u2019t even attribute a number to it.<\/p>\n

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Think about that. We\u2019re being divided into two camps of increasingly insane and angry people because of hysteria surrounding an issue nobody even cares about. As usual, we can thank mass media for turning this topic into its singular obsession as well as promoting an environment of cultural insanity and stupidity.<\/p>\n

As a result, people aren\u2019t having intelligent conversations with one another. They\u2019re just yelling at each other. The dialogue feels more like a political hunger games where people see everything as a linguistic competition of kill or be killed. Language itself has become debased as individuals try to one up each other with name calling and hyperbole. Demonizing and dehumanizing the other side appears to be the primary goal, which will only lead to a very bad place if we don\u2019t take a collective deep breath.<\/p>\n

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Lunatic Politics (Part 2) \u2013 It\u2019s Becoming Impossible to Have a Conversation More and more people are becoming aware of and concerned about the level of political dialogue going on right now. We\u2019ve gotten to a point where I\u2019m seeing almost no intelligent debate about any serious issue. Russiagate now consumes such a massive amount […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[6788,4285,6174,637,15282],"class_list":["post-36090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-debate","tag-liberty-blitzkrieg","tag-michael-krieger","tag-politics","tag-russiagate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36090","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36090"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36090\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36091,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36090\/revisions\/36091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}