Well, 2020 is behind us, but 2021 has not started out great. Most of the issues today are ideological, and most of the ideological differences have found a home in politics. Intellectual honesty is dead. If your political side does something, it's justified. If the opposition does exactly the same thing, it's horrible and they are evil. It has become more than any thinking person can handle. No one seems to be aware of the rampant hypocrisy. There was once a time in this country where we recognized all politics and politicians are crooked. Now we ignore how crooked our particular brand can be.
This is what spawned my 2021 theme. No one seems to be honest and decerning enough to realize that the politicians are willing by the division, and they are playing us against each other. War is good business, and an ideological civil war is best for career politicians. The news media loves it, they are making all kinds of money. Social media loves it, they are in the middle of the spotlight and making all kinds of money. We, the American people are stupidly enabling them to roll over us. We have lost ourselves in the fight. We have given up our individual identity to labels, titles, positions, and ideologies.
My 2021 theme is a call to come back. We need to stop letting people think for us. We need to throw away the labels and the ideologies and the pre-programmed sound bites. It is time to use your heads people, stop thinking with your emotions. Stop blinding following and for the love of everything holy, grow up. Use your head.
That was a phrase my dad would use when I did something dumb. Sometimes he said it softly, but most of the time it was in his dad voice. If you have ever held the flashlight for your dad while he was working on his car, you would totally understand what I'm saying. So here this is my dad "hold the flashlight" voice. It's time to use your head. Think, and make good decisions. No more following the script.
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