I truly do enjoy politics… news, political humour, current events conversations… love it love it.  BUT… the internet brings out the crazy in us all.  Of course this isn’t news to you.

 I can’t stand blogs about politics.  Seriously.  I want to love them.  I’m politically active, and it’s kinda my thing.  I love feeling like I know what’s going on in the world.  But have you visited these places?

Ugly, hostile, and polarised.  It’s probably a reflection of how we’re actually thinking these days, but when I meet up with friends and we discuss politics, no one gets nasty and calls me names and tracks my IP address.  But it’s not just blogs… someone mentions politics in a chat room of any sort, and I quickly avert my eyes.

It’s sad to feel drummed out of town simply because I want to avoid nastiness.  I do wonder why we can’t talk about things that matter without all the vitriol.  Especially when the truth of the matter is, most of us are feeling hard-done-by by ALL politicians.  You know, those people we elect that are supposed to look out for our interests?

I’m not saying “can’t we all get along”, even though it would be nice if we could sometimes, or at least be less obnoxious, I’m more saying “can’t we all focus our vicious zeal on those who really have it coming, i.e. the lying bastards from all parties who screw us over whenever they have the good fortune to get into power”?

Is it too much to ask?

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