Inevitable, given how much Canada and the world is bound up in what happens south of the border.
Thanks to Trump, nearly everything became very politicized the past 4 years. Much of it consisting of lies that needed to be called out. Truth Matters. Bigtime. The current conflict between lies/fake agendas and truth/fact/honesty is THE crisis of our Orwellian time (with dictators afoot and democracies threatened). Many of our current issues and much of politics today originate from this fundamental conflict.
From university onward, I have always taken seriously my old professor Dave Wangler’s saying about being “a sincere seeker of truth and wisdom”. When I check for information daily, often it is simply for the truth about something or someone. Distortions of truth and misrepresentations are usually harmful, often destructive, and sometimes widespread-deadly (writ big in Trump’s case–Clocking in at over 30, 000 lies, he’s destroyed America, its government, its institutions, its relationships with other countries, and people’s lives near and far). They need to be called out/challenged.
“Man is by nature a political animal.”—Aristotle
Re. politics, this blog never used to be so obviously about politics, but this change was inevitable, as I mentioned in an entry some time ago. Everything is/can be politicized. Who takes out the garbage. The workplace. How children are raised. Agendas in friendship. And so on. If you think politics aren’t relevant and important, then you aren’t paying attention to family, relationships, and society for starters. (You may not be fully awake/conscious.)
At present, I’m watching Ingmar Bergman’s 1973 classic series Scenes from a Marriage which makes the former very obvious. No, you can’t live under a rock. A lot of our choices are political or potentially so when there are alternate points of view, differing opinions, and individuals with varying values and backgrounds, facts and truth matter.