There are manty distresing things going on these days, and mnnot only in the world but in my own personal life, which makes it hard to arrive at conclusions and solutions about anything. For me for sure but I think for many of us. I continu to be distressed by the political situation in particular, meaning the fact that lfeft and right can't talk to each other specifically.
we hear different sets of facts. Althoughn I can demonstrate in a few dcases that the media have been putting out false facts and that liberals still believe their fversion of those situations, I'm not up on the whole range of issues so I can't make the case for more than a few. Not to mention the fact that liberals don't want to discuss uany of this anyway. Even if I propose a discussion I get a no from them. And other consrvatives say thesame thing.
But surely there must be a way. RTo To the expent that it is a matter ofof errors of fact on one side or the other such things ought to be resolvable. If emotions run high it should be possible for us to learn to tone them donewn for the samekke of discussion. I don't think of the average liberal as having any nefarious motives, I just think of them as believing false information. To some extent I think they have the same view of us on the right, but I'm not entirely sure of that since what they think we are accepting is some pretty horrible stuff like white supremacy and fascism and that sort of thing, which are pretty personal things. But that is something that it would be good to try and sort out. How long can we go on with half the country believe ing one set of supposed facts and the anot other side a completely different set?
I can prove a few things about how the media have distorted the facts about Trump and about George Floyed and I think also about Black liives matter and that sort of thing. It's etedious going even with those few things but I do think it worth it to try to get sdiscussions boing on any issue at all. Even if it takes days or weeks to get through a particular minor issue to a point wehere we have a better understanding of the actual facts on both sides that should be worth it. I don't know how to begin to try to bring this about because as I said I encounter a complete lack of openness to such discussions from my libedral friends and acquaintancxes.
An even tone, a willingness just to listen and not talk until the right moment if that ever arrives, brief comments to begin with and so on. Why isn't this a possible mode of discussion for us these days? I hear the conservative side of thing from many talk show hosts and they are pretty good at including lengthy sound bites of the opposition but I'm always frustrated that the conversation remains one sidesd and that we can't get liberals in on it with us. What good does it do for a bunch of us to think even the truth about a situation if the truth stays only in our own group? And yes it is possible that it's not always the truth and we do tneed the input of the other dside. I very psessimistic about that of course but it has to be allowed as a possibility.
I understand that there is a strong hatred of Trump by some people, not only on the left but even the right to some extent, and I have to admit to not really understanding it. It's not that I think Trump is perfection by any means but he offers us a true vision that most conservatives do agree with, but the liberals I know think he's just a power mad fascistic feolonious rapist or some such and while that just takes my breath away with its bizarre falseness I have to acknowledge tghat it's there and bpeople believe it and I don't know what to do about it. and just going on with the conservative mesasge as the conservative talk shows do isn't going to deal with any of that. And that is what needs to be dealt with above all.
I'm suffering a lot these days from a sense of isolation and loneliness that seems to be to exceed the normal situation of my life. There is some personal cause for this but a lot of it is the political situation, the sense of this encoroaching totalitarianism that can't be stopp[ed and largely because we can't talk to the other side about it. They think we are the totalitarians. YHikes. What do you do with that level of falseness? How do we deal with that? it is necessary to keep on with the soconcservaitve point of viesw, that can't be dropped, but at the same timed if it isn't etting across to the other side we're just talking in an cho chamber. Something has to be done.
My typing in this is terrible.
My eyes are getting wrose.
Anyway as I started to say I'm gefeeling a level of what, disconnection, alienation, loneliness, that seems new to me and is at times even frightening. I pray and the Lord is there. His peace comes over me whan I speak to Him but still this world is getting to me. And I keep searching my head for solutions. And praying about it when I think about it which isn't often enough. he is always the source of all the answers, how ridiculous of any of us to forget that but I do.
I'm suffering from this sense of isolation and loneliness in a new way it seems to me, and I'm sure I'm not alone, in fact I know I'm not, I have aliberal freind sho admits to having similar feelings. Someone I can't discuss politics with although recently we might have made alittle headway there, I'm not sure. But we are both sufering from this state of affairs. Since the COVID sthing started at least.
I wish I could read emails but I can't. I wish I had wsays of being in touch with more people but thanks to my failning eyesight I just can't. I cdon'at have a solution to any of this for myslef at least. But as long as I can still type even if I can't read it maybe I can keep up the subject, keep it on the table at least.
