Thursday, December 31, 2015

How Politics Brings Out the Worst In Us

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-12-30/how-politics-brings-out-worst-us

Politics - especially elections - creates a system that brings out the worst in people. It poisons relationships. It pulls us in as spectators who stand agog at a completely inauthentic show of national politics (over which we have virtually no power). We end up mostly ignoring the local issues over which we could have considerably more influence. As a consequence, an entire nation falls under a particular kind of spell.

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