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Small Minds Discuss People…
“Great minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people.” I’m not sure who said it first, but someone did and I thank them for it. I think about it more and more often as I am becoming more and more aware of how many people obsess about personalities while disregarding deeper issues.
Donald Trump is a person. People discuss him all the time, no matter which side of the political spectrum they are on. In truth, Trump is spoken of much more often by the centrist Democrats and Republicans than by his followers. Democrats, especially, obsess about him. I can’t imagine what Democrats would have to talk about if it wasn’t for Trump. When they do discuss anything other than Trump they sound ridiculous. They start saying things like “Actually, the economy is doing really good, why don’t people see it?” Or, “The Build Back Better bill is going to save the environment AND create new jobs.” Or “Putin is Hitler and if we don’t stop him in Ukraine he will conquer the world.” Or, “Yes, Biden is abetting a genocide but he’s still the lesser of two evils.”
Vladimir Putin is a person. Democrats talk about him all the time. Any time you try to discuss events or ideas with them that differ from the establishment narrative, they call you a Putin puppet. Putin Putin Putin. The discussion never rises about the level of people. Zelensky. Navalny. Putin Trump…