Sorry, Progressive Borg -- Friendships That Cross Political Lines CAN and SHOULD Work
Taylor Swift endorsed Kamala Harris and Brittany Mahomes liked some Trump posts so of course they can’t be friends, writes some vapid broad at a British publication. This sort of partisan zombiism is a disease on society.
Humans aren’t the Borg. We aren’t some meaty, homogeneous glob, we have different likes, ideas, and beliefs. The refusal to acknowledge someone’s humanity as more important than a political box to be checked is the exact same reasoning that led this society to begin devaluing life in the first place. It reeks of weakness, insecurity, a deficit of both spirit and intelligence to deny oneself association with anyone that doesn’t perfectly reflect one’s exact belief set.
It also sounds absolutely fruit and beyond unrealistic. I don’t even agree with my own husband on everything and he, more than anyone else on earth, is someone with whom I agree on more things than not.
This fantasy standard is especially applied to celebrities, more especially to those of a stratospheric level, because of their inordinate potential to influence. Democrats clearly view Taylor Swift as a tool, maybe she would prefer to be one, but I’d like to think she’s at least smart enough to know when she’s being maliciously manipulated to ditch friendships because the left is too afraid that Swift may normalize being friends with diverse-thinking people. You know, like a normal person.
Normalcy is the enemy of the left. They need you to believe that we live in such unprecedented times that you must ditch your friends, your relations, everyone who doesn’t conform to your worldview. They want you to believe such couplings of incongruent beliefs are unnatural and wrong. They need supernatural fealty and supernatural fealty has no room for wrongthink, no grace for those who practice it, and no mercy or tolerance for anyone.
It would say a lot about Swift if she told the haters of her friendship with Mahomes to pound sand and made a point to show that you don’t have to be of hive mind to get along. Maybe she doesn’t even need to do that and instead she just shows people what a healthy friendship looks like without paying the indulgence of political homogeneity.
It’s not just being friends, it’s friendly. I have tried several times to carry on polite conversation with progressive acquaintances, both knowing where we fell politically and I was always met with ridicule, insult, and disdain. It seems to be more prevalent on the left, not accepting the friendship of someone who disagrees politically, but surely it exists on both sides. It’s a shame we are so polarized. But it is possible and it just takes a little bit of humility and humanity. Or maybe just SMOD.
Yes!