Relative Something

I’m a pretty apolitical guy. It isn’t something that inspires me. For the most part, issues political are more inclined to tire me. There is so much empty rhetoric and over-compensating for limitations and failings in solutions being spouted. Most annoying of all to me is the polarization of issues and of political parties. Nothing is as extremely exclusive as the combatants try to make it seem. Nothing is all red or all blue and it’s a damn shame that our system has evolved to make any intelligent progress toward cooperation between the two primary parties such a long shot possibility.

I have no problem understanding that there are people who do have interest in the process of politics. But I am suffering with how people who do not have interest in politics can suddenly become swept up by outlandish reactions of others to a congressional vote and soon begin voicing their own desire for retaliation. Nothing has even happened yet! Why would someone write a letter to the editor of the paper to reflect the United States was born on 4-July-1776 and died 22-March-2010. Really? Did our country just expire?

What happens to people, that they embrace the logic of throwing bricks through windows of Democratic offices because they did not approve of the bill that was passed? Some of them finding it a worthy enough endeavor that they actually carry it out, multiple people in multiple cities! Why would a person publish a twitter message that calls for the President to be shot? My goodness. They are certainly revealing a fear of something. Something that hasn’t even happened yet. Maybe people believe that there will now be death panels that will be killing grandparents. I thought that ridiculousness had already been dispatched for the political theater that it was. Maybe I was wrong. It is incredibly disappointing.

Wasn’t I just looking for a way to not be counted among the human race? I’m willing to bet that the trees don’t have any of this insane behavior among their kind.