Are you being fooled like an idiot? Know your source.

 

Hello guys and gals. Just wanted to make a quick blog post out of the randomness of my silent existence lately.  

So concerning politics, there's not much that I care to discuss these days. My teenage anti-everything days are long over...my college "just buy me everything" days are over. These days I'm just coming out of a harsh 2017 break up with politics, my desires to be a civil activist, and lastly the democrat party...in that order.

See Before 2017, I was a die-hard democrat. Blue all the way to the voting booths. Whatever I heard, I believed. In my racist head, I fell into the trope of conservatives mean "evil white men" and progressives mean "peace loving all racial people." Boy, was that a lie that was grown in me through years of being under the k-12 public education system, or as I call it now, the academic leech jobs of liberal hippies sucking on the easy government payroll. 

Aside from the regular academics, math, english, science, all public education and most of college classes are just full of nonsensical courses. This is due to the education system as a whole being long taken over by progressive liberal influence; which regardless affects most teachers today. 

Anyways, this isn't to discuss political history, this post is about political common sense and by extension just common sense.

Let's just say, back in 2017 the media told me day in and day out this message "TRUMP IS A RACIST AGAINST MEXICANS."

When you hear those headlines, as a hispanic, it becomes very easy to just go with the flow. Question nothing, especially deeper views into political policy. 

No, you just let your emotions take over without any rational thought on what the context is.

To put a whole dramatic break up in a few words, I found out I was being lied to.

One day when I decided to hear a Trump rally, and not just a "Trump rally highlight," I quickly realized Trump was a normal person. He was not racist, he was not fascist, in fact, he simply spoke common sense about a country's role in border policies.  

I was astonished because I thought my party, the democrats, believed in this common sense when it came to the border topic. The reality was, Trump and the republicans were simply discussing basic border politics and my party, the democrats, had gone all too quiet on ANY border topic. 

I thought my party was better at the border topic, turns out, we were far behind, so much behind that border topics somehow seemed to just be tossed away in all conversation. No longer was the democrat party the party that was based on common political topics like border, defense spending, being tough on military, etc. No, that was all an Obama hoax that fooled me well into my young adult years. In fact, it turns out the democrat party is the least ahead of the curve, they've always been mostly wacko. All the democrats ever care about is saving trees, putting more useless laws and bureaucracy, and opening borders to outside US influence. 

As an adult, I'm double upset because I know now there is a way to properly cut and grow trees as well as what is really "eco" and what is just slapped as "anti-eco" just to boycott or politically disarm such as natural resources in coal, iron, and oil. Heck even nuclear energy is pretty eco friendly when properly maintained, it's not just doom and gloom like liberal hollywood dramatizes.  

 

Anway, this has all been a long way to say, is that you should question everything. Don't just blindly follow rumors or gossip or clickbait videos or headlines. 

Duh!!!!

Yes, but it has to be said. Unfortunately. 

We live in an age of clickbait news. It doesn't matter if its by "legacy" media or those "innocent" grassroots independent media bloggers.  Question both. Question me. Contemplate my topics and my points, don't just head straight into emotion that blinds you from pre-judging the end because you already made up your mind before reading. Be actually open minded to want to learn; if you actually cared about the best solution for a topic.

Don't just believe everything you read. Question everything you read. That is what will engage you out of ignorance and into context conversations.

The worst part of my debates today, when I talk to someone, is when I end up teaching the other person because they just believe everything they hear and they haven't given ANY room to unlocking those basic under the surface questions.

Those are the worst! Because when I answer something, someone else moves the goal post and says "well, if that's true, then why not..." after the 3rd time I just leave because they obviously have failed basic comprehension and are expecting a free lesson out of me. 

In the end, try to be more neutral, not bias, in everything you know because nobody knows everything and everybody has room to learn. 

It's just so sad when I see people and friends fall for clickbait news. Know that everything has a source, either left, right or neutral. Do you know the influence behind the brand? If you ask Google, they will send you progressive liberal bias. If you watch Fox, they will give you straight news with a touch of republican bias. When you watch CNN they will give you curved news, with a splash of radical racist tunnel vision that will entrap you into being a racist person in views.  When you watch gaming videos on youtube, stay clear from ranty "reviews" because a lot of them are cynical cash grabbing influencers that rage at whatever trend seems profitable, like making a career out of bashing Bethesda Game studios for pennies.

First, know now that you are being fooled. Second, take a pause to reflect back on your OWN thoughts. Third, adapt to being neutral. Question everything. Vote on what's rational not on what's emotional because it turns out often what is emotional leads to the most absurd head reality.

Here, I'll give you the first to ponder. Are you a racist? If you care about skin color identity, your only answer is YES. If you don't care about skin color anything in any person, well then, welcome back to sound adulthood. Nobody cares about your skin color or whether you are male or female, so don't let those be your whole personality.