If You Haven't Read This,Its New To You Pt. 1~~ Political Partisanship itself is the Motherf*ckin’ Devil

I've been trying to remember my login email address and password to MySpace for like 2 years, because I wanted to teleport some of my blog from like 4+ years ago onto here. But I've been continuously stymied. 

Tonight, I quick decide to try again. Put in an email/password combo I thought for sure I'd tried a dozen times. Boom, first shot. First attempt. I'm in. So its my pleasure to bring you the first of a series, which I created the name for by blatantly ripping off an NBC Summer reruns slogan from about a decade ago, called "If You Haven't Read This, Its New To You!"

Basically, these are all posts from quite a while ago, that I wrote, but they are appearing here to live on in undead form. Like transporting my soul into a machine post-singularity (There you go Kurzweil, told you I could work it in!), my past has come back with more life than my present. Without Further Ado:

 BLOG TRANSFER-MYSPACE-08/31/2007

Current mood:cynical

It is my theory that political partisanism is on equal footing with racism and homophobia, and 2nd only to the intolerance inherent within organized religion (which often breeds all three of the shared number two slot holders) in holding most of the responsibility for all that makes this world terrible which is within our control. I'd go so far as to say that out of all that exists on this planet whether it is natural, manmade, or otherwise, those 4 concepts alone are almost exclusively responsible for the continued breeding of hatred for fellow humans, for the thinking that one's own form of idealism can actually be superior, and the emphatic deliberate expansion of differences and promotion of that which divides us as a species as "what is really important."

Religion is ultimately responsible for so much of the war, the murder, the hatred, the suicide, the depression, parents hating their children, children hating their parents..... But the reason that religion and the generally accepted set of prejudices that most of them hand out as "facts" to people is almost in a different category by itself is that it also breeds the concepts of homophobia, racism, and partisanship in politics, the three ideas I see as equally rotten.

Because, to anybody with a mind of their own, free of intense social or family pressure to take up the torch of hatred like they have, it is obvious that racism and homophobia are miserable terrible scourges, I am going to make my point specifically regarding the the most sinister of the three; The brilliantly veiled form of hatred alive in American and I'm sure the world at large today;

Political Partisanship--

From the time we are young, whether participating in Mock elections in grade school or getting teachers'/parents'/friends' encouragement to rally and protest, we are taught to feel superior too or feel disdain for, and even hate- yes hate- the other side of the two-winged political creature we're all riding on. From the wing you allow yourself to reside on, and others of course, it appears that everyone thinks its easiest to judge the other side the farther they are from it, despite having probably the least understanding of the other side the further you are from it.... (IE, being extremely left/right wing).. Rather then learn to live, and love together wherever we are at in the political spectrum, hatred is the easy route, regardless of how destructive. Can you think of anything existent in society that has done half the damage, half the terrible deeds which intolerance and hatred have brought about?

There are hundreds of millions of people, with hundreds of millions od ideas and concepts and viewpoints that all differ from one another in this country.

We are shown on Sesame Street that we're all different, inside and out, and we should all appreciate diversity and celebrate that which we have both in common and that which we are unique for with our friends and strangers alike.

Yet, while all this is going on, we are slowly being pushed by outside influences to join what, for all intents and purposes that matter in the political spectrum, to narrow our own existence and personal focus down to one of two choices;

Right Wing or Left Wing. Republican or Democrat. Elephant or Donkey. Does this not confuse anybody? Is there nobody that is pro-choice and small government?** Is there nobody that wants a lot of social programs, but wants to pay for it by cutting wasteful government spending? Is there nobody that thinks affirmative action is a great concept, but ultimately may be responsible for more hatred then the equality it creates? Nobody who wants to regulate/legaize/tax drugs, end the drug war, and fund health care AND income tax cuts with it?

I mean, come on people. How can so many people so staunchly support ALL THE SAME PRINCIPALS as the other ~100 million people in your party? How can everything be so black and white?

Its such a shame that the media are so totally blinded by, or supportive of the partisanship and condescending, smug superiority problems that it breeds in people who feel the "other side" has it all wrong, with the typical thinking being "If those democrats/republicans weren't so stupid they'd get it.... but they don't!" As the basis for why its OK to hate/prejudge them so badly, it gives little reason to decide to get to know a person of differnt ideals individually.

Its the worst form of promoted prejudice there is, because even those who believe they are champions for equality generally hate those across the aisle from them, who appear so smitten by their own beliefs that its no great leap to champion acceptance out of one side of your mouth, and trash and abhor your fellow man on the grounds that he is part of whats wrong with the world today.

If you want your children to grow up without hating, and you want the world to someday stop viewing everyone as black or white, Red or Blue, Gay or Straight, destined for Hell or Saved....... We need to eliminate the tendency from youth to say prejudice is terrible but then sanctify all forms of it with political partisanship.

With all this said, and my point made, if yuo would like to comment, please consider answering one or more of these questions. I'm curious to know how anybody can make the argument that political partisanship does more good than harm. 

Is there anybody here, whatever your political leaning, who disagrees with the preceding statements? If so, why? What about on a not-you-personally scale, (because I'm sure YOU don't have any inherent hatred for anybody, no matter HOW conservative/liberal redneck/metrosexual they are etc etc.... ) but rather the parties as a general whole, and the majority of the population and they set of beliefs used as core principals? Have people forgot how to think for themselves? 

``````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````