Why not argue about politics
A Life / / December 19, 2019
Imagine that you love tea. And your friend is very fond of tea, but the other is not the same as you love. He drinks Puer, and you just black and without sugar. Therefore, all who drink black tea with sugar, causing you irritation. A Puer to your taste you feel muck. How can you drink it?! Whether it black tea: fragrance, colors, strength, refreshing notes of taste... what a beauty! But no, here it comes to you to visit your friend, and again he had to brew this stupid pseudo-tea.
You know better than anyone that tea is only black and only sugar-free, and the rest - just a miserable compromise for wimps and liberals; real Russian men drink black tea, and not every liberasticheskie garbage, like pu er tea latte, frappuccino still be asked to pour! Thu! And in general, so why should I give up a friend who does not respect black tea?! But who he is - our ancestors drank black tea for centuries! They fought and drank real black tea! They can say, life is put to everyone had the opportunity to drink black tea. And then, you know, we introduced the fashion of the dirtiest, like Puer, oolong tea, cappuccino, frappuccino. This is all the corrupting influence of the West, Europeans bluntly impose their pseudo-values, and you buy this cheap propaganda substitutes for our high quality, strong, black tea. How not to our?! As China grows?! It's all the enemies! Tea is always grown in Georgia and to the point! What does "Georgia is no longer a part of our country"?! So, we now no longer drink tea?! And I have always said that first they make us drink tea instead of the normal kind of muck, and then will enter the juvenile justice system, and will take away our children! And generally speaking…
Whoa, wait a minute! Set aside the cup to the side for a few minutes and think about what has just happened to you. Instead, together with a friend over a cup of tea to discuss any common interests and topics, you decide to pick a quarrel just because you like one kind of tea, and he was - another.
Political parties and public figures (with a few exceptions, like Stalin, Hitler, the leaders of the KKK and neo-Nazis) akin teas. Some people like one, someone else. Someone is actively supporting a particular political platform, and someone just interested in the political situation as a whole.
And someone (and I'm sure you have more than half of these friends and acquaintances) are not interested in politics at all. They impose a certain taste tea properly and even rude. Likewise, it is incorrect to impose political views, likes and dislikes, even if you are acutely perceive this or that political force, or a program.
The next time you want to talk about the "correctness" of some socio-political views and "totally wrong" all others - just remember the story of tea.