2025-09-17
I'm not a fan of excessive introspective political analysis (particularly of the left/right variety as I regard this distinction as fundamentally useless, being so ill-defined as to be positively amorphous), but this article is exceptional in as much as it covers a great deal of socio-historical factors of which individuals with their own individual adolescences are probably unaware. That's a problem, because whilst we can argue a case with others of similar time and background, our case probably won't be so readily argued with others of dissimilar times and backgrounds because they will have been imbued with different assumption sets about life.
And we really cannot argue that we can't deal with others of different backgrounds because we will need to somehow all unite around a common set of principles that everybody can get behind if we want to get out of the "divide and rule" paradigm that our "leaders" like so much to propagate.
So this is necessarily rather longer than I would like but it does do a useful job.
But I can't resist throwing in this little gem of an article about Trump, who is very clearly not an "ordinary person" ...
