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The politicalization of everything is dangerous
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I have noticed in the last few years, the political realm like a disease spreading from the halls of Washington DC into many other areas.
Into our purchase decisions, our personal lives and beyond.
The "politicization of everything" is IMHO a deeply pernicious trend and it is a big part of the reason one can't "opt out" the way that was possible even ten years ago. Politics is in your chicken sandwich choice, your sports, the words you use, even if you hesitate too long over a touchy question around the water cooler at work. Politics is quickly seeping into everything.
This is worse than annoying -- it's dangerous. Because "all politics all the time" is a feature of totalitarian life.
In the Red Terror, people would say things like, "thanks to Comerade Stalin, I was inspired to wash the dishes more efficiently after dinner today." Under Mao, transactions at the corner store began and ended with quotes from the "little red book." In Pol Pot's cambodia, failure to dress identically and have identical hairstyles was cause for execution (in fact it was a standing order to shoot anyone with glasses because they would have been bourgeois enough to afford them in the old regime). Failure to comply with the politicization of everyday life's most mundane details was cause for denunciation.
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