Why do you think, when politics is a topic of conversation, everyone can get so heated?
I understand, respect and believe that everyone is entitled to their opinion, don't get me wrong. But with a lot of people (my mother, for instance) becomes so narrow minded and can't see other points of view. I personally hate discussing politics because in my experience, with some members of my family, people start yelling and I always leave the room.
Just curious what your opinions are about this. Asked by aj0905 51 months ago Similar questions: politics topic conversation heated Family > Parenting.
Similar questions: politics topic conversation heated.
My Thoughts Ever since human beings have been self aware, attained consciousness, we have had to deal with uncertainty in our lives. Death, death of our loved ones, will crops be good this year, why did Joe next door get eaten by the bear and not me, why does the moon change shape, and on and on. The more we know the more we don't.In order to deal with this uncertainty and navigate through life, human beings developed culture, social structures, religion, etc. Your political beliefs and your religious beliefs (sometimes there is not much difference between the two) are the heart of your peace of mind.
They order your world and inform you on how you deal with the world.Is it really surprising when someone messes with something that important that we freak? Now if you throw into the mix certain people that somehow arrive at the conclusion that there is only one way to deal with the world, or that there is only one way and God agrees with only with this view and not those others....well we know what that leads to don't we. Frankly, I don't think these people have much faith in what they believe or they are simply tyrants, petty or not, who can not abide people doing something differently or something they feel is "bad"..
I think each person has a different point of view because each person has only been exposed to different facts... Each person has their biase. Some protect the underdog since they relate to that. I think they protect who ever they identify best with.
If you attack a politician it is like you are attacking them too. It is like if you attacked the wife of someone and they would want to protect the wife since they chose this wife. I think people develop a theory of life that matches one of the political parties.
I think my sister chose the person she thought would protect her the most. Some people fight their way through life and some people go peacefully through life. No one can prove their ideas, since they do not have enough facts and no one really knows the real facts of the political situation.
People do this with religion too. I think to disagree would mean their whole philosophy of life is being judged and overturned. Love is blind, and people don't want to see things contrary to what they believe..
Debating is a contact sport! My wife always gives me a warning before we go to visit some members of her family or family friends. "Now, don't talk about politics or religion," she says.
The problem is that people take many of these issues terribly personally. They do matter. Policy changes can affect the lives of millions of people, and most people do care, very much, about making this country a better place.
However, we often believe in very different methods as a way to achieve this betterment, and few people stop to talk about the underlying principles and experiences they have had that lead them to believe in one particular method or another. The other thing, is that people are, well, people. When we take things personally, any disagreement feels like a personal attack.
If you don't agree with me, you must think I'm scum. So then the people talking are no longer defending a point of view, but they are defending their own personhood. ANother thing that happens in conversations like this, is that people do get passionate, and raise their voices, and become involved in winning, rather than in understanding each other.It becomes a debating society, where you have to make points.
If you're not into winning and losing, you won't like debates, and you won't like political conversations, for the most part. In addition, most political speech obfuscates what people are truly talking about. Most people use code words, and don't stop to define what they mean when they use the words.
Thus, it is not real speech, aimed at understanding, but, once again, speech aimed at identifying allies, and isolating enemies -- very similar to many debates about religious issues, as well. Finally, I want to point out that there are alternative ways of organizing conversations, although these are difficult to suggest in social situations. You can have a listening style conversation, where people share experiences and explain how those experiences lead them to the conclusions they have made.
This kind of thing happens when you use a talking stick. A symbol of who has the floor is passed from hand to hand, and only the person holding it gets to talk. Everyone else must listen, and they should be listening, not thinking about what they are going to say when they get the stick.
Personally, I find this kind of conversation much more rewarding, and I try to introduce it in social situations, by suggesting that we listen to people we haven't heard from, or keeping more agressive people from interupting, but there is only so much one can do of this nature in a group of competitive people.
Politics is almost a borderline religion with a lot of us. One of the old sayings in this country is 'Never discuss, or make lite, of ANYBODIES, religion, politics, or family--it can still get your butt kicked'. I have to agree, despite an apparent total lack of caring by the general population of this country for any of those three things, mention any of the three in public--in bad light-- and it seems they turn rabid.
I guess, I hope, I at least imagine...despite everybodies apparent lack of manners, spirit of America, God, deep down we still like this country, motherhood, apple pie (make mine the crunchy crust type), and the flag. When anyone cuts down one of the three, we rise to the occasion. Then again, I did say I at least imagine and hope this...I didn't say it was the truth.So basically that's it, we treat all three sometimes like our own religion--anyone who slights the three BEWARE!
Great question! BYE!.
Politics is like sports to most people. It really doesn't touch most of our lives in a day to day way. Plus, there isn’t much that we can do about something in government that we don’t like in the short run except complain and campaign for someone else in the next election.So, we can safely throw our entire beings into discussing the subject with very little danger of major personal repercussions.
It gives us a chance to vent all of our frustrations about the universe by engaging in political discourse. The more passion that we have, the more likely we will get a trifle rowdy. Also, one’s stand on national issues deeply draws from one’s feelings about government, philosophy and economic theory.
Many of these beliefs are core values to our ways of thinking. Also, politics has this way of touching our deeper psychological views and needs. For example, one of my professors in college told me that in the ’48 election, she was a graduate student living with two other graduate students--all studying Political Science.
They agreed to not discuss the election until afterwards, so they could keep peace in their apartment. On Election Night, all three of them disclosed that they had voted for Truman, not because of anything about him, but because Dewey’s mustache really bothered them.It doesn’t take a Ph.D. In Psychology or a Psychiatrist to see that their voting choices were affected by their beliefs and attitudes about men and authority figures.
So, let’s try to stay civil, but recognize that tempers are apt to flair a bit over the next thirteen and a half months. And if you don’t like politics, find something else to do?
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I understand, respect and believe that everyone is entitled to their opinion, don't get me wrong. But with a lot of people (my mother, for instance) becomes so narrow minded and can't see other points of view. I personally hate discussing politics because in my experience, with some members of my family, people start yelling and I always leave the room.
Just curious what your opinions are about this. Asked by aj0905 55 months ago Similar Questions: politics topic conversation heated Recent Questions About: politics topic conversation heated Family > Parenting.
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My Thoughts Ever since human beings have been self aware, attained consciousness, we have had to deal with uncertainty in our lives. Death, death of our loved ones, will crops be good this year, why did Joe next door get eaten by the bear and not me, why does the moon change shape, and on and on. The more we know the more we don't.
In order to deal with this uncertainty and navigate through life, human beings developed culture, social structures, religion, etc. Your political beliefs and your religious beliefs (sometimes there is not much difference between the two) are the heart of your peace of mind. They order your world and inform you on how you deal with the world. Is it really surprising when someone messes with something that important that we freak?
Now if you throw into the mix certain people that somehow arrive at the conclusion that there is only one way to deal with the world, or that there is only one way and God agrees with only with this view and not those others....well we know what that leads to don't we. Frankly, I don't think these people have much faith in what they believe or they are simply tyrants, petty or not, who can not abide people doing something differently or something they feel is "bad".
I think each person has a different point of view because each person has only been exposed to different facts... Each person has their biase. Some protect the underdog since they relate to that. I think they protect who ever they identify best with.
If you attack a politician it is like you are attacking them too. It is like if you attacked the wife of someone and they would want to protect the wife since they chose this wife. I think people develop a theory of life that matches one of the political parties.
I think my sister chose the person she thought would protect her the most. Some people fight their way through life and some people go peacefully through life. No one can prove their ideas, since they do not have enough facts and no one really knows the real facts of the political situation.
People do this with religion too. I think to disagree would mean their whole philosophy of life is being judged and overturned. Love is blind, and people don't want to see things contrary to what they believe.
Debating is a contact sport! My wife always gives me a warning before we go to visit some members of her family or family friends. "Now, don't talk about politics or religion," she says.
The problem is that people take many of these issues terribly personally. They do matter. Policy changes can affect the lives of millions of people, and most people do care, very much, about making this country a better place.
However, we often believe in very different methods as a way to achieve this betterment, and few people stop to talk about the underlying principles and experiences they have had that lead them to believe in one particular method or another. The other thing, is that people are, well, people. When we take things personally, any disagreement feels like a personal attack.
If you don't agree with me, you must think I'm scum. So then the people talking are no longer defending a point of view, but they are defending their own personhood. ANother thing that happens in conversations like this, is that people do get passionate, and raise their voices, and become involved in winning, rather than in understanding each other.
It becomes a debating society, where you have to make points. If you're not into winning and losing, you won't like debates, and you won't like political conversations, for the most part. In addition, most political speech obfuscates what people are truly talking about.
Most people use code words, and don't stop to define what they mean when they use the words. Thus, it is not real speech, aimed at understanding, but, once again, speech aimed at identifying allies, and isolating enemies -- very similar to many debates about religious issues, as well. Finally, I want to point out that there are alternative ways of organizing conversations, although these are difficult to suggest in social situations.
You can have a listening style conversation, where people share experiences and explain how those experiences lead them to the conclusions they have made. This kind of thing happens when you use a talking stick. A symbol of who has the floor is passed from hand to hand, and only the person holding it gets to talk.
Everyone else must listen, and they should be listening, not thinking about what they are going to say when they get the stick. Personally, I find this kind of conversation much more rewarding, and I try to introduce it in social situations, by suggesting that we listen to people we haven't heard from, or keeping more agressive people from interupting, but there is only so much one can do of this nature in a group of competitive people.
Politics is almost a borderline religion with a lot of us. One of the old sayings in this country is 'Never discuss, or make lite, of ANYBODIES, religion, politics, or family--it can still get your butt kicked'. I have to agree, despite an apparent total lack of caring by the general population of this country for any of those three things, mention any of the three in public--in bad light-- and it seems they turn rabid.
I guess, I hope, I at least imagine...despite everybodies apparent lack of manners, spirit of America, God, deep down we still like this country, motherhood, apple pie (make mine the crunchy crust type), and the flag. When anyone cuts down one of the three, we rise to the occasion. Then again, I did say I at least imagine and hope this...I didn't say it was the truth.
So basically that's it, we treat all three sometimes like our own religion--anyone who slights the three BEWARE! Great question! BYE!
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Politics is like sports to most people. It really doesn't touch most of our lives in a day to day way. Plus, there isn’t much that we can do about something in government that we don’t like in the short run except complain and campaign for someone else in the next election.
So, we can safely throw our entire beings into discussing the subject with very little danger of major personal repercussions. It gives us a chance to vent all of our frustrations about the universe by engaging in political discourse. The more passion that we have, the more likely we will get a trifle rowdy.
Also, one’s stand on national issues deeply draws from one’s feelings about government, philosophy and economic theory. Many of these beliefs are core values to our ways of thinking. Also, politics has this way of touching our deeper psychological views and needs.
For example, one of my professors in college told me that in the ’48 election, she was a graduate student living with two other graduate students--all studying Political Science. They agreed to not discuss the election until afterwards, so they could keep peace in their apartment. On Election Night, all three of them disclosed that they had voted for Truman, not because of anything about him, but because Dewey’s mustache really bothered them.
It doesn’t take a Ph.D. In Psychology or a Psychiatrist to see that their voting choices were affected by their beliefs and attitudes about men and authority figures. So, let’s try to stay civil, but recognize that tempers are apt to flair a bit over the next thirteen and a half months.
And if you don’t like politics, find something else to do?
" "In the UK the weather is always a topic of conversation. What do you always talk about? " "Best books on parenting?
" "When it comes to parenting, Are you like your Mother? " "Is it me or a lot of questions being asked in the Politics topic getting a trifle strange? " "politics" "No topic TOPIC!
" "Why has the topic, "Politics," become the dumping ground for those awful bonus questions? " "How does one browse for a particular topic within a general topic? (such as "ADHD" within "Parenting"?
)" "I posted a message on the bulletin board over in the Politics Topic. Please let me know what you think!
In the UK the weather is always a topic of conversation. What do you always talk about?
I posted a message on the bulletin board over in the Politics Topic. Please let me know what you think!
I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.
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