October 26, 2014
Pocket paradigms
More and more, living in America seems like living up in a badly dysfunctional
family. I sometimes imagine the Republicans as being a collective
version of an alcoholic, abusive husband and father while the
Democrats are the battered but completely submissive spouse.
And the rest of us are the mistreated, powerless kids. But as
some in such situations learn, one is not powerless. You are
weak but not helpless. You have to find ways to build a new rational
reality, something that can happen even in the midst of madness.
Neither one's father nor mother - not Mitt Romney nor Barack
Obama - will help with you with this. Your condition is not your
fault, but your response is up to you. - Sam Smith
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That occurred to me a long time ago. Having grown up in such a family, It was obvious that either my family was a microcosm of the larger world or that the larger would was a macrocosm of such families.
I have always survived by doing what I thought was right regardless of what others thought. I don't find it surprising that I'll have nothing to do with modern politics.
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