The greatest frustration arising from an obsession with politics, is that no matter what the issue, even if you find yourself in the majority, there are a whole bunch of people on the other side, and they just won’t go away. Whether it is global warming, Obamacare, Iran, gay marriage, abortion, or legalization of marijuana, the opposition, like the poor, thou shalt have always with you, win or lose. The Democrats are finding it out now. The Republicans found it out as George W. Bush rode the “permanent majority” into the sunset. Caesar found it out the hard way. Victory, like all that “exists”, is temporary.
Doesn’t anybody ever win, with finality, once and for all? There are still Communists in the world, not to mention monarchists, anarchists, and ABBA fans. No bad idea, much like government programs, ever dies. That no good idea ever dies either is small consolation, since time inevitably transforms good ideas into bad ideas, witness environmentalism, the civil rights movement, unionism, and the Rolling Stones.
What would happen if everybody actually agreed about something, anything? What if every sentient inhabitant of planet Earth agreed that we should adopt the metric system of measurement, or that girl babies were just as valuable as boy babies, currently very much a minority opinion? What would happen? Would the Earth’s crust split open to reveal the end of the material plane? Why is universal agreement among human beings about anything whatsoever, apparently, obviously, impossible? What does that say about our essential nature?
When there is universal enlightenment, will there be universal agreement? Do Jesus Christ and Gautama Buddha have differences? I believe they do. I believe they always will. if you disagree, you are an un-American, racist, Nazi.