There was once a time when I used to share links from a publication called “RealClear Politics” to my Facebook timeline. Not because I agreed with them, although sometimes I did agree with their thoughts, opinions, and perspectives. I believe the article writers did their research and intelligently presented the facts. There is no requirement that you have to agree with what they wrote! It’s good to hear differing points of view.
I stopped sharing the RCP links to my profile timeline because instead of people responding and leaving their comments at the article, they started yelling and screaming at me! If I had the time to engage them in discussion I might have responded back. But I was busy!
Besides. It’s just politics! 🙂
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Almost every day I go through my Facebook memories . It’s hard to believe I’ve had an account for over 5 years. The memories remind me of how things change and how nothing has changed. Here is a link (below) from a post published in 2013.
I’m sharing it because it relates to a short post I published in 2015 (“Dzhokhar Tsarnaev – Death or Life (In Prison)?”) and because I want to keep it as an historical reference. This article has that “point the finger of blame” tone to it, describing the “mayhem” that happens in Washington, D.C. when tragedies that occur in a U.S. city that shock the whole nation. To me, this a question that should be answered with a another question.
People always want to point the finger of blame at somebody or some institution when bad things happen. Why should I be any different? I reached back into the historical records of ancient Akkad, found this guy’s name and I’ve been blaming him for everything ever since!
Whatever happens it’s Sargon’s fault! (Or if it’s a natural disaster, then I blame global warming.)
In psychology, this is what is called my “defense mechanism”. It protects my mental state, takes the heat, pressure and tension out of the blame game and makes it not so serious, giving me time to … pause … breathe … and review news reports and other relevant material, and try to make sense out of what really did happen.
When horrific things happen, the obvious question is “Could it have been prevented?” There are times when someone is surely to blame, must shoulder their responsibility, and be held accountable. But not all the time. Sometimes even though people do everything in their power to try to prevent a tragic event, it still happens. When tragic events occur, we all need to have real clear minds and only inject politics into the situation if and when it has relevancy. Quite frankly, even though I no longer post their links to my social media profile, I think “RealClear Politics” is an excellent publication and lives up to its name.
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