Hello all!
Thank you for all your responses on the last thread. I am regretting trying to get into this subject with certain friends. Debate is healthy but I'm too fragile to broach this with them atm. It's upsetting how incredibly vulnerable I feel right now. I was nearly having a panic attack having said my piece to one of them over text and waiting for their response (which was just 'I could demolish your argument like that' - except they didn't elaborate)
One of my best friends has similar politics and a similar attitude to the situation (thank god or our friendship would be in trouble atm!)
This is the opposite to my situation and it is what is hurting me. I have always believed in having friends with lots of different beliefs and political views and while I still think it's important to have a dialogue with different people, I feel more like I want my closest friends to agree on core things. And it's weird when I'm left wing but all my left wing friends now think I'm callous and right wing for the opinions I hold - I'm not either! And to dismiss an opinion because it sounds right wing?! It's a very dangerous attitude to dismiss everything right wing people say just for the sake of it. There has to be some middle ground otherwise people become incredibly divided. I found a good article in the Daily Mail a few days ago and don't get me wrong, I hate the paper but they have published some useful stuff over the years. You can't dismiss everything published in it just like that.
Watching my middle class (former?) friends agitating for educationally disadvantaged children to be locked out of the universal education to which they are entitled....had been a real eye opener
Yes THIS. None of my friends seem to have any care for those vulnerable children. They haven't come up once in conversation. It baffles me. I'm frightened for what some children are going through right now because god knows it'll be horrendous. Many won't ever get help or will only speak up about their experiences in adulthood.
One of the problems with the so-called left wing is that they arrogate a moral high ground they have no right to and just presume that whatever they espouse is right and everyone who opposes it is evil
I've been seeing this for a while now and it's so dismaying. And my friends who I'm having issues with are all Corbyn supporters, which someone else mentioned on the other thread.
I feel very wobbly but much better for talking to you all on here. Still sick of this whole issue. I wish the government would sort out contact tracing so we have another tool to help us. And I will just keep hoping that as the weeks go by, we don't get a significant spike in cases - it will quieten down a lot of dementor voices.