2015-06-05

wallwalker: A man standing on the edge of a beach and looking up at a massive ringed planet and distant odd clouds (personal apocalypse)
2015-06-05 09:07 am

Politics: Where everything's a schism (warning, see cut text)

I am beyond sick of how politics defines EVERYTHING in this country, even things that politics shouldn't have anything to do with at all.

The most recent example: Warning: sexual abuse, child abuse )

(Okay, that's the only bit that should need a warning.

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I mean, when did everything in this country become partisan? I know it was always there, but I suppose I'd never realized just how severe and ever-present it was, when even the most basic and (I would think) undeniable things have become cause for a schism along party lines.

This system is unsustainable. If the political parties can't agree on something so basic as what I was saying above, then it's only a matter of time before the whole thing blows up.