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I just pulled up my close friends filter, figuring I wanted any thoughts and news from people I love, and not too much politics.
But, of course, the people I love, I love in large part for their intelligence and their compassion. So that filter was full of politics and unhappiness.
A coworker, a basically reasonable and friendly seeming woman who told me yesterday that she'd voted for Bush (I simply told her I'd voted for Kerry--no point starting a political argument at work when the vote has already been cast) seemed close to gloating early in the day. I looked away when we passed in the hallway on my way back from lunch: and she came over and apologized a bit later, thus saving me from a probably fruitless shouting match. I try to believe that she, that many of those who voted for that man, wants what's best for our country and even the world, and is simply wrong about how to get that. Denial is a great human attribute, right up there with the brain's ability to see patterns whether they're actually in the external world; I don't think--and maybe this is my own denial--that this basically decent-seeming woman voted for Shrub because she supports Guantanamo.
[Edited/expanded slightly since posting.]
But, of course, the people I love, I love in large part for their intelligence and their compassion. So that filter was full of politics and unhappiness.
A coworker, a basically reasonable and friendly seeming woman who told me yesterday that she'd voted for Bush (I simply told her I'd voted for Kerry--no point starting a political argument at work when the vote has already been cast) seemed close to gloating early in the day. I looked away when we passed in the hallway on my way back from lunch: and she came over and apologized a bit later, thus saving me from a probably fruitless shouting match. I try to believe that she, that many of those who voted for that man, wants what's best for our country and even the world, and is simply wrong about how to get that. Denial is a great human attribute, right up there with the brain's ability to see patterns whether they're actually in the external world; I don't think--and maybe this is my own denial--that this basically decent-seeming woman voted for Shrub because she supports Guantanamo.
[Edited/expanded slightly since posting.]