I really, really don't like politics very much. They dilute the belief in the singularity of our existence as people and forces the media to form the way we think about our fellow man by portraying those with strong beliefs as criminals and to a low only mayonnaise should exist at. There is nothing I fear more than radicals and their ideas because, no matter who it is, they will be turned on and portrayed as evil, despite their cause. Whether, it's Milo Yiannopoulos' Alt-Right movement or the Black Lives Matter movement, people will find a way to portray them as either evil, or a godsend, causing confrontation at all fronts.
Most of us here in the middle really hate extremists on the opposing side, and some despise extremists from both, as I do, but as much as we want to toss their life's work to the wolves, we can't exist as a nation without them, and here is why.
If everyone had the same ideals, this country wouldn't exist how our ancestors intended it to be; freedom to express oneself however they choose. having the exact same ideals, as glorious as that seems, means we can't solve problems with different solutions. In example, the black population of this country voted for Obama because they wanted a black president, not one who wishes to rebuild black America through education instead of entitlements. Now, the largest portion of African Americans to vote republican in the last 5 elections voted for President Trump, because there had to be a better solution for them than Obamacare. They set aside their differences to find a better solution. The state of Colorado, although not directly affected by the Mexican cartel, legalized marijuana and taxed it to increase the influx of money into the state's economy. On top of this, illegal marijuana isn't distributed as hardly in that state because of its new availability. Actually, that's not really true, but republicans in the state believed that when Amendment 64 came about. Republicans in the state believed the Mexican Cartel would shrivel in the state with the legalization of marijuana, something Democrats had been pushing for in several other states for over a decade. Republicans came together to find a way to rid the cartel in their state, the exact purpose of our democratic republic exists as such. These are just 2 examples of the many times people on one side of the political fence shook hands with the other in partial agreement, and that is exactly where we need it to be.
We need to unite, as people, but when we need to come together, it has to be for different reasons or understandings. Five different minds together are much stronger than a million copies of the same mind, because the ideas you can expand have a much more broad limit. No matter if you are far left, far right, or just someone who likes that video of Gary Johnson faking a heart attack after pretending to be high at a debate, we all need to come together on something at some point, but not everything, every time.
