Political Party Propaganda is used by each
party to rile you up and get you to choose a side. Once you have picked
your "team", you start to believe anything bad you hear about the "other
team", and you defend "your team" with all your might. It's the oldest
trick in the book~ the more hostile Pro Sports gets, the more riled-up
humans buy tickets and souvenirs, and watch it on TV. Why do you think
rulers have been going to war for centuries? They go to WAR in order to
get everyone to be ON THEIR SIDE, solidarity AGAINST the other
clan/village/kingdom/country/ religion/political party. They are PLAYING you.
Stop publicly insulting and attacking the political party that your friend belongs to, stop buying into the monkey hate, stop letting them rile you up, and stop throwing your friends and family under the bus just so you can feel like you belong to a "TEAM" that doesn't care for one minute whether you exist or not. You are not part of their "TEAM" any more than you are a member of the Red Sox or the Miami Dolphins. You're a FAN. Only if you can look at all Political Parties WITHOUT a feeling of "Us" and "Them", WITHOUT an adrenaline rush, WITHOUT feeling like "They are wrong and We are right", and when you can respect anyone who does not belong to the same party and refrain from childish blame games and name-calling, only then will you be able to see what is actually going on, and who is doing what.
Stop publicly insulting and attacking the political party that your friend belongs to, stop buying into the monkey hate, stop letting them rile you up, and stop throwing your friends and family under the bus just so you can feel like you belong to a "TEAM" that doesn't care for one minute whether you exist or not. You are not part of their "TEAM" any more than you are a member of the Red Sox or the Miami Dolphins. You're a FAN. Only if you can look at all Political Parties WITHOUT a feeling of "Us" and "Them", WITHOUT an adrenaline rush, WITHOUT feeling like "They are wrong and We are right", and when you can respect anyone who does not belong to the same party and refrain from childish blame games and name-calling, only then will you be able to see what is actually going on, and who is doing what.