I am so sick of everything getting politicized. [View all]

[grumpyduck]

I've said here before that I have an old out-of-town friend who's a Republican. Mostly, we avoid talking politics and just focus on common interests and the adventure of growing older by the day. But every now and then he sends me a clip or a link about something political, and recently it was about Covid-19 and how the Democrats this-or-that. I sent back a reply telling him that I detested the fact that an international tragedy is getting politicized, and that people seem more interested in talking about "the other side" than about the pandemic itself and what's being done about it -- and especially about how the MSM sells a lot more ad time talking about the cases and the deaths than about how many people have recovered.

It seems to be getting harder and harder to talk about anything without dragging "the other side'" in. Geez, a bird pooped on my windshield. If I'm a Democrat, it's the Republicans' fault, and if I were a Republican, it'd be the Democrats' fault.

Are we really getting to the point where everything is about politics? I'm getting to the point where I don't even want to talk to people any more about anything besides the weather and simplistic stuff. Even chatting about wearing a mask of not turns into politics.

And yeah, I know... I hang out in a political chat room.