In America, we are told we should vote for elected officials with enough experience, but when they do have experience, we ignore what that experience is. When they are newly in office, if you point out what they're doing wrong, we say that we just have to give them time. Near elections, you just have a political agenda. Until after a while, all those things we forced ourselves to ignore HAVE been ignored, and we are left with only trace emotions- which one seemed nice vs which one seemed like a dick. And when anyone points out the negative aspects in the record of the candidate or official who has succeeded in convincing the most people that they're "nice", then that someone is easy to dismiss as crazy or racist or evil. Because why else would someone say mean things about anyone who is "nice"?

And we don't just ignore the past, we ignore the present. We make excuses. We try to explain. We use lighter words to make certain things seem not-so-bad, like we use exaggerated words to make certain things seem as repulsive as possible. We even try to officially censor opposing views, in the strange belief that a dissenting viewpoint will interfere with fairness and democracy. If we can't censor, we use insulting terms that we hope will communicate to everyone our great displeasure. And when that doesn't work, we choose to isolate where we get our information from, to block others out. We block people who are our family or who had been our friend up until that moment. We don't just speak insulting terms, we think them too, automatically discrediting everything that person will say, and on any topic. We might even discredit the topic, or the source of the topic.

The solution is to take the time to check public records before all this happens. All of us. All the time.
If Iran assassinated a high ranking military official or bombed Fort Dix in retaliation for bombing "Iranian backed rebels" in Syria, would you call that a surgical strike or an act of terror? Is it different for the US? And if so, then why?

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