Subj : Re: Politics echo
To   : boraxman
From : Spectre
Date : Sun May 15 2022 12:56:00

 bo> The problem with politics is really ideology, not politics itself.  We
 bo> have strong ideologies, and it is this which causes the crapfest.  One
 bo> person believes in this notion, another in that.  I don't think
 bo> historically that has been the case for politics.  Such thinking tended to
 bo> remain in the religious sphere, but politics and socials ideals have
 bo> become the new religions.

Yeah nah, or not quite... There was a time, that politics and religion were
tied at the hip here. 40s and 50s maybe, somewhere in there... We had a
majority christian population and as a result they had a lot of pull in the
political sphere also. At its heart a lot of religion is also politics
like any largish body. This also seems to lend itself to one form bleeding
into the other.

At this point we have a far more diverse population, and the traditional
churches have dropped off in influence. The ones that remain tend to come off
as the lunatic fringe rather than anyone you can take seriously.

Not sure politics have become the new religion, in fact I'd go do far as to
say its in decline rather than any kind of improved position, rather the way
religion has gone. To my mind, its like they had their crack at things for a
long time, to do it pretty much esxclusive of any other serious minority.
But with the change in demographics their exclusive days are done. Far more
divergent people, far more religions... can we get Jedi in there again? So
we've diluted the religious pool, diluted the political pool too, the "new
comers" don't appear to identify with either main party as much as they used
to.

Spec


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