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Hello, welcome to another Dailyjim it is Wednesday June eight or slightly after. But technically yeah we'll say it's Wednesday June eight today. I want to talk about politics again. Um I want to talk about the january 6th committee that's going to be talking tomorrow. And most importantly I want to talk about how we do politics and how at least politics in the U. S. Doesn't seem to be about uniting people. It seems to be about defeating the other side. And maybe this comes from a political strategy. I can't remember what it was called when I was learning political science in school, took a couple classes. It was kind of it's like the average voter theory or something along those lines. The idea was that um you have two different candidates that are on the far sides. And this probably applies more to yeah Political systems where there are two major parties but that the person would try to get as close to the average voter as possible without going too far to the other side. The idea of being you're not trying to appeal to the polls like the far extremes, You're trying to appeal to the middle um and get more middle than the other person. But what this says to me is that people don't necessarily try to appeal to the opposite side or the far opposite side. And I think I see this a lot when it comes to us politics. It seems that so many of us are not trying to understand people who have a very different perspective or people who even have a slightly different perspective. We're just trying to convince those who have the same perspective as us to go out and vote or were trying to convince those who have a mostly similar perspective to us, to become more similar to us and vote in the same way, and I wonder if this really accomplishes a lot of the goals that we really want, you know, if one of the goals is to have the United States of America, if we are to unite and work together.
By just trying to defeat The other side by trying to win 51 to 49 Or even trying to win 60 to 40%.
Does that mean we just discard the other 40% of people who don't agree with us, do we just say ah we don't care about their opinions, as long as we have more people on our side who believe it, then they can believe whatever they want.
I don't know how conducive this perspective is for resolving conflict in society, but also for just getting along for.
Resolving conflict not only in the current moment, but in the future moments. So, for example, let me, let me talk about something that may be controversial, but I think a lot of white people in the United States, carry either a an overt fear or kind of a subconscious fear of what will happen when white people are no longer the majority, population in the country.
You know, based on a lot of the things that white people have done to nonwhite people over the years, violently, uh, you know, direct violence and also indirect violence.
And so I imagine if we had the perspective that, well, it's okay because we have the majority where the 60 to 40% and whatever the numbers are, then it's fine, but that's only fine, as long as the person is in the majority, if the person is now into the minority, You know, instead of being the 60%, they become the 40% or you know, instead of 51%, they become, then that becomes a problem. So the idea that this, we often seem to be seeking a majority rules with an iron fist mentality, or with a cold heart or whatever idiom you want to use to say that we don't with apathy or hatred towards the other side, um, that can build fear in us of what will happen when we're no longer in the majority.
So I would just think, and you know, it bothers me and I just wish that we would be so much better, at trying to expand the majority, trying to expand our concept of team to unite and bring more people onto our quote unquote team, instead of just trying to beat the other team. Because what I worry about is when it comes to this january 6th thing, that one side is just going to say, it's a big lie. It's a big lie. It's a big lie. The liberals will say that or the I don't even like saying liberals, like some people will say big lie, big lie, big lie and the other people say no, no, it's not a lie. It's hard to convince somebody just saying the phrase big lie over and over again is not necessarily going to convince those people. But maybe the goal for some of these politicians is not to convince that far side, but I believe that the goal should be to try to, not necessarily convinced, but to understand and come together and have a conversation, a real conversation about what's going on. Why do people believe that the election was fraudulent? Why for me, it perplexes me, I believe and trust strongly in a lot of the election officials and I trust strongly and the majority of the system to kind of find the loopholes and things like this, but some people don't. And so I'm curious why instead of blast, you know, blasting them and attacking them or ignoring them and just trying to defeat them. I want to unite with them and try to figure out what's going on so that we can bring I have friends and families and neighbors and and political parties and regions in many parts of this country, back together. So that's what I'm gonna talk about today, and I hope that was a little bit enlightening for you. Or hope it sparks conversation. If you want to continue a conversation, let me know. And I would love to go from there. Thanks.
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