One of the worst things about being a critical thinker
is that you’re a critical thinker.
I think that a lot of the discourse around the DNC
is so drastically different than the discourse about the RNC
because of how those parties have thought of intellectualism.
By Trump poo poo’s thought.
And so it draws people who frankly don’t enjoy thinking all that much,
cause if they did, I feel like they’d see some errors there and then.
On the left we have a whole lot of people
who have an ability to think about the complexity of a problem.
Now, certainly not all of them,
and some of the reason they can is a real boon for people on the left.
They are rightly empathetic towards the plight of people.
They’re standing up for injustice,
they’re doing the good fight.
But of course,
the left also includes people who might have critical thought
but lean towards centrism,
that lean towards slow change,
that lean towards stay the course.
It is both the joy of the Democratic Party and the left in America
that they are diverse and free thinking and complicated.
And also the challenge, it is the fact
that is filled with people who care about human suffering
and people who have various paths to how to stop that suffering.
Not to mention it is a machine.
Politics in America is a machine.
And machine need a whole lot of cog,
whole lot of people who are willing to Go in the same direction, which,
at least for some people on the left,
they have created their identity out of
refusing to go in the same direction as everyone.
And at least some people on the left,
critical thinking equates to negative thinking,
sort of nihilism. In other words,
the left in America is not equal to the Democratic Party.
And the Democratic Party is somehow trying to signal.
And it’s this chaos that they were trying to bring under the tent.
And I would say I am frankly
very disappointed
that they didn’t have a Palestinian American on the stage.
But am I surprised? No.