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​The cousin of my BFF/MOH wrote the following. It is what I think, feel, etc. And he wrote it beautifully. Thanks, Jim K., for letting me use your words when mine couldn’t get their act together.

“Ah, politics. Our emotions are shaped by the media we choose to consume with little pause for critical thinking. I find myself at a frenzy worrying what a Donald Trump presidency would do to America’s place in the world order and the unraveling of stability. Is this worry justified or is it an overreaction due to one-sided media in my feed? Similarly, the fevered cries to lock up Hillary Clinton look insensible to me. I can’t tell if they are deserved or just fanaticism because I can’t say I am honestly open. But neither are you, really.

Roger Ailes hurt the world with the advent in America of a televised one-sided propaganda outlet disguised as a news agency. But wasn’t the explosion of one-sided media inevitable once we all weren’t watching the same 3 prime time news programs? Jon Stewart and the Daily Show, Huffington Post, Vox, etc… these aren’t any less one-sided than Fox, Drudge and company. 

Swallow the red pill or the blue pill all day every day and pretty soon half of the people in America look idiotic, ignorant, or worse for not coming to the same obvious conclusions you are high on. 

If we wish to survive as a free and healthy society, we need to find ways to cure ourselves of one-sidedness in belief. Our Congress is broken because votes now are almost entirely along partisan lines. The unity needed to address our very real and pressing problems is scarce. There are political sides on all of mass shootings, terrorism, radicalism, police killings and retaliations, massive school debt, Middle East war and diplomacy, wall street corruption, underemployment, stagnant wages, climate change, and nuclear proliferation. We blame our politicians for being ill with our same delusions.  

I want out of this madness. I want a world where we acknowledge truth, and we look at problems from the perspective of finding solutions. I want a world where we reject irrational fear, lies, egotism, intimidation, bigotry, racism, sexism, and corruption. I want a world where we grant respect to people who think/feel differently. 

There is too much we can be doing to help one another instead. The cure for me is to focus on that and I suggest you do, too.”