Remember that 80’s song The Politics of Dancing? I remember dancing (badly) to it in junior high school in my Don Johnson, off white suit with the sleeves rolled up. I was smoove.
I won’t pretend I knew any other words than the chorus:
Beyond that I had no idea what the hell the song was about. I was too busy thinking I looked less like a dork and more like a sex symbol. I was wrong, but that’s not the point.
That song just happened to pop into my head this morning and that lead me down a rabbit hole and got me thinking about my politics. I post a lot of crap on social media about the horrible human being that is The Orange Troglodyte™ and that leads a lot of people to believe I must be a liberal. I guess that makes sense, but I don’t undestand why it’s binary; you’re either a liberal or a conservative.
My politics are simple
I believe the primary function of the government is to do the most good for the most citiz…
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