Avoiding the Horde - Navigating US Domestic Politics in the Age of Irrationality

I could care less about the debt ceiling. I could care less about Dreamers. I can't bring myself to pound the table about domestic US politics anymore. I am trying, really.

Ever since the end of this election cycle, when the mindless hordes go back to having their heads in the sand and leave the political discourse to us that pay attention, I've noticed something different. They never went home. Now, I'm all for more people involved and interested in what crimes the political class commits, that's the whole "hearts and minds" thing. But that's not what's happening. The hordes are staying as hordes, they're just invading the battlefield of ideas.

Some of my friends are part of these hords. They aren't bad people or even not informed. But they are run off emption. And they haven't done the research into what emotion gets you in a democracy. MOB RULE.

I was a policy hound a few years ago. Hammering home the problems with raising the debt or bad tax policy. Most people didn't want to hear it. I was kind of doing it for myself. Now I stopped doing it for myself. My own sanity.

If you listen at all to my podcast, you'll see that my focus is strictly on war and geopolitics (which leads to war). Any domestic stories usually involve an event that didn't take place in Washington D.C. or a major violation of human rights.

War is emotional, so I admit I'm kind of hypocritical there. But on a scale, being pissed off about state sponsored child murder should rank higher than calling your neighbors "Nazis" because they disagree on some economic policy you barely understand yourself.