Political Polarization: Choose Your Cult and Hate
You can take your yoga, run your five miles each day, have career, family and financial fulfillment but if you fixate on politics; then you may have wasted your life and your health. Political ideology breeds hate and hate is poison to your mind, body and spirit. It is a health issue. Time to be free.
People have views. Those views are based on beliefs. Those beliefs are reinforced to feel like they are life or death and real. We think that they are the ONLY way to see a situation and anyone who disagrees is a threat to our safety. Unfortunately, our system was set up to ONLY decide between one or the other party. Where you are, who you are with and what is presented emotionally at the time decides what we believe. Then we set out to reinforce this belief. Once it is ingrained, it is part of our identity, ego and survival mechanism. At the same time, there is another person who went through your belief foundation just like you did. You believe that you are right and they believe that they are right. It is really important to know that what you believe is neither 100% true nor does it need to be. It is just a belief. It feels certain so we double down and this creates a stronger emotional connection. It is JUST psychology!! Is is NOT TRUTH!! What you believe so fervently is not real: it is just a belief system.
The thing about belief systems which make them either good or bad is whether or not they are positive and empowering to you personally. With regards to being a good person, being a rabid ideologue will allow you to dehumanize others and that will make you mean and you will dislike or hate 50% of the US population simply because you decided to believe something was the only truth. What would we call someone who dislikes or hates 50% of the people in our country of 330 million? Is that a desired human trait? Is that a person who inspires the human race? Is that a person that we want to let get near power. Power to inflict rules or punishments. Of course not.
It is NOT good to be a political ideologue. It has way more to do with just political views. It is so mentally and spiritually unhealthy. It will ruin your life with hours or meaningless rants based on a belief given by others who are lost. Is this why you were born? When you were created on the day that you shined of newness, do you think the world wanted you to give up your critical thinking, soul and your identity to argue a really questionable belief system which is just one of a billion that you can have? Of course not. You were made for more.
So, if you are still reading, you have a choice. Can you understand that your deeply held political views were given to you because there are literally a billion ways to think about issues BUT because we have parties which only see one of two ways, you just accepted one. Now it is so emotional to you (not that it is real but because you were told it and then you believed it to reinforce it". So, can you see it now? This is just the way we set up beliefs but the question is do they empower good and beauty? Political ones which create ideologues who can't see more than one way are not good or healthy. What if you were free?
How to break a connection to the life of an ideologue. Simply admit a few meaningful things wrong with your side. There is no way they are perfect. Next, say at least three really positive things about the other side. Really be serious and have integrity. Would a jury say that what you said is really positive? It is in this that we break through!!
Now, if you did that, how do you feel? Can you feel that freshness? Can you feel air and do you feel less mean? Do you feel like you have grown? That is you being free of ideology. All you have to do is continue to not mindlessly buy what other activists, pundits and ideologues say.
I hope you enjoy this new you!