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When mainstream and social media turned the public health crisis into a political issue it ruined any chance of ending well. Politics destroys everything it tou
by meddlepal 6y ago
When mainstream and social media turned the public health crisis into a political issue it ruined any chance of ending well. Politics destroys everything it touches in this country.
Or put more simply: We would be a lot better off if everyone would just shut the fuck up for 10 minutes.
- untog 6y agoSo the current administration botches the response to a pandemic but the media is blame because they politicized it? Healthcare is a political issue. Pretty much everything is a political issue. To pretend otherwise is to bury your head in the sand.
- archagon 6y agoSure, let's just take politics out of things that affect people.
- K0SM0S 6y agoThere is a popular expression in French that explicits a worthy distinction: “Politique politicienne”. It literally means politician politics, or politicians' politics (a politician is a political figure, like an elected official), and it very derogatorily qualifies all the noise, the blablabla, the unimportant chatter in politics — Wherein politics speaks of egos, not ideas; the part that seldom leads to actual or worthwhile "policy". When a leader is said to be making “de la politique politicienne”, it basically means that's degree zero of intelligent discourse, and solely aimed at tackling political opponents. Cue false claims, supporting opinions you provably don't believe yourself (but party line prevails), etc. It's an old expression, before my time (1980s). It's fallen out of flavor. Probably because 99% of politics has now become de la politique politicienne...