![]() I hated the anger and the righteousness on both sides and the more I wanted to get away from it the more the battle was brought to me.īut politics, and to a certain degree of their implied social responsibility, doesn’t go away. ![]() At the same time, my normally politically apathetic parents had likewise done an about face, perhaps because of my own forced experiences home time and car time was foiled with endless rants of pundits from the other side and annoying looped Fox news programs such as hypocritical (and to me, even then, personally obnoxious) Bill O’Reilly who despite his “no spin” proclamation never actually let the other side on his show finish a thought, much less propagate a “well balanced” argument. Hard core followers on both sides seem to equate their political stances, and the subsequent tirades, as something akin to “the only true religion.” On the one hand, one of my degrees was in journalism, which ostensibly taught about objectivity but spent more classes bashing Fox news than actually teaching me how to write and avoid any sort of spin either way. ![]() Rating: A Book About Current Politics For People On Neither Sideīeing a millennial growing up in Washington DC and going through college here has left me with a fair amount of scars and a general hatred for politics, Republican, Democrat, or otherwise. ![]()
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