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Re: Generational differences when it comes to how you feel about politics?

[(Anonymous)]

It's not only generational. There are countries and cultures where "your political views don't make you better or worse than other people, and acting like they do just makes you an ass, regardless of what those views might be" is considered baseline to discussing politics at all. Which is something mature adults are absolutely expected to be able to do.

The US tiptoed around moral absolutism by telling people that they should NOT discuss politics if they weren't preaching to the choir, and acting like insults and freakouts were just a sign of having firm moral convictions and being challenged. But to people who come from places where your self-chosen identity labels and affiliations are not considered the defining mark of your quality as a person, all of this looks very dishonest, like social incompetence is being disguised as honor or virtue.

I'm bringing this up in relation to your boomer parent because this is something a lot of hippies got and admired about Mexico. People there would look at them and size up how they acted and what came from their heart, much more than what they announced they were. And because that sense of "I can be your friend" or "I can't" rested more on how they lived than on anything about belief, it was durable. My dad is from Mexico City. He has many friends who stayed close to him even after he left Catholicism as a teenager. Some of them had similar ideological trajectories, but many continue to be very conservative. What they respect and appreciate about each other is personal. It was rather shocking to him when a close friend came out as gay, in the 70's, but there was no question that it would break the personal relationship. He knew this man well and trusted him, and that was that. There was no social pressure trying to force them apart, either. There's a strong sense that ... politics are inciting disrespect and social discord, when they try to dictate to people who they can love and feel close to. And that they don't have a right to demand that.

When I size that up, it seems reasonable to me. Because I don't think the amount of acrimony that has gone into inciting people to attack each other over political differences has brought resolution to any of the issues that people care deeply about. I might (likely would) agree more with your politics than your fathers', but I think a lot of wrong is done by people who think they can do no wrong as long as they've chosen "the right" side to be on. And, IMO, it really does not work like that.