Total political toxicity

Another indictment for President Trump came down this week from Joe Biden's DOJ. This makes 3 indictments so far, 2 of them federal, one out of New York. Interestingly, every time some bad legal news comes out on the Bidens, the same or next day bad legal news comes out on Trump. This will undoubtedly go on until the 2024 election.

Also interestingly, if you watch the Biden supporting media outlets you'll never hear any details negative to the Bidens. When Hunter Biden's former partner testified on Monday that Joe was in on more than 20 phone calls and meetings concerning bribery payoffs from foreign government entities, almost nothing was made of it on CNN, MSNBC, CBS, NBC, or ABC.

The left will do anything it can to stop Donald Trump. Lying, cheating, attempting to drain his funds so that he cannot defend himself or continue to run a campaign, put him in prison, or maybe even kill him.

Nothing is off the table in their quest to destroy him. Yet his poll numbers remain high, his supporters have not deserted him. Most conservatives are behind the former president. The far left so-called progressives and the entrenched elite establishment are supporting Joe Biden and his crime family. No matter what.

Most people have taken sides across the country, putting themselves into boxes; either left or right. And the sides tend to be emotional and loud. Each side is convinced their side is right and the other is wrong.

We have never been so divided since maybe the Civil War. This is total political toxicity, not a good place for a country to be. It's depressing. People have never been so politically minded in my lifetime.

As a young man, when I began working, it certainly wasn't anything like this. I think back to my friends, associates, and fellow employees and I can tell you that politics very seldom came up. Of my closest friends back then, I can't tell you their political leanings. We just never talked about it and nobody cared. It wasn't part of the daily interest in our lives.

Our conversations were work related, or dating related, or related to entertainment, hobbies, or a million other things. Not politics. We didn't identify ourselves by our politics. We didn't wear our political affiliations on our sleave. That wasn't what we were.

The entire country operated in the same way. For the most part movies were strictly entertainment, no political ideology. Yes, once in a while a "message picture" came out, but that was only now and again. Who Doris Day or Abbott and Costello voted for wasn't important. Television shows certainly had no agendas other than to be entertaining. No one knew who Perry Como voted for and no one cared. He was a wonderful singer with a sweet personality who entertained us every week. The Dick Van Dyke Show had no message or ideological agenda other than to make us laugh. Did anyone care who Mary Tyler Moore voted for in the last election?

Mostly all forms of entertainment, movies, music, theater, and fine art, dealt with shared human issues and desires. That was the whole idea, common themes that people could relate to collectively. The arts tended to bring people together, not pull them apart. Listening to the Great American Songbook, can anyone tell me the "political ideology" of "Night and Day," "Pennies from Heaven," "Love and Marriage," "Whistle While You Work," "Mona Lisa," or any of the thousands of classic tunes written by Cole Porter, the Gershwins, Irving Berlin, Jerome Kern, Johnny Mercer, Hoagy Carmichael, or Rodgers and Hart?

It's a mystery to me why major companies, sports teams, movie studios, and entertainers purposely take sides on social and political issues that, at the very least, will alienate half of their customers, fans, and consumers. To what purpose?

Unless you make your living somehow in the political world, politics is a dry, boring topic. But somehow it has become the litmus test for who we are. What your political views are determine who you associate with and how you interact with others.

What a relief it is to just put on an old movie, the kind before political agendas took over, and watch Laurel and Hardy or Buster Keaton and laugh. And not give a rap who they voted for in the 1933 presidential election.

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