Posting Truth

WHEN PEOPLE POST messages in big, colorful letters on Facebook, surrounded by brightly colored backgrounds, you can be sure that the poster considered the message important, worthy of attention. sometimes, it is. One that caught my attention went something like this, roughly paraphrazed: "If somebody tells you that one political party is all good and another is all bad, the person is one dimentional and and extremely biased." Or something like that. I agreed with it, and still do. However, let's qualify this ideal by remembering that not all political parties are created equally, and that some are mmuch better than others, in terms of being beneficial to soceity, and helpful to people rather than harmful to them. Indeed, some political parties are much better than others. It may be, for example that none of the parties in post World War One Gernamy was up to the task of peaefully, safely rebuilding Germany, but it seems obvious now that by far the worst one, the party that Germnas should by all menas have stayed from andgivenno poer to - was the one that won, Hitelr's party. And yes, I think it was obvious even during the nineteen twenties and early nineteen thirties, when many political parties in Germany, Socialist, Communist, Conservative, National Socialist (NAZI, Hitler's party) were all actively competing for power. Its diffcult to imagine things turning out worse than they actually did, in real space and time, with the victory of the NAZIs in Germany. suppose, for example, you live in a country with two major political parties. In one of them, we'll call it "Party 'A'", a majority of members deny the existence of climate change, and oppose all policies to reverse it. The other party, Party "B" keeps screaming that climate change is an urgent emergency, and tries to hammer home policies to fight it. When the party that denies climate change, Party "A" loses a presidential election, most of its members claim that its candidate actually won the election, that it was stolen from their party, and then a majority of its members try to violently overthrow the government to regain power. Are you starting to see a pattern here? Party A tries to ban books, and limit free speech in public schools. Party B opposes this. Our Republican Party A still enjoys a great deal of support in the United States, amazingly, considering its far right wing out of touch with America extremist tendencies and policies, but trouble may be on the horizen for our notorious Party A. Consider its positioins on LGBTQ people, making voting more difficult, denying racism, Trump's criminal behavior, and climate change. That is simply not a winnning formula,a rodamap to future political success in the United States of America.