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(The title of this post is the word "politics" but with the vowels removed, kind of like the title of that one song, Thnks fr th Mmrs. As you can see, I am getting creative with my blog post titles now.) 

This post is about partly becoming more open minded (a topic which I think I have discussed a little in the past) and also about being "out of touch." It has to do with politics so if that's not your cup of tea then perhaps don't read further.

As you may know, eyelashes guy does a podcast in addition to writing political commentary and offering it on TV. So I am listening to an episode of said podcast where eyelashes guy interviews a colleague of his who covers politics and entertainment. During the podcast, they ragged on the celebrities who have made an implorement to Congress members urging them to not support Donald Trump basically. Additionally, eyelashes guy has criticized Meryl Streep for the speech she gave recently at an awards ceremony, for which eyelashes guy has received criticism (mind you, on twitter) for. In any case, I was sort of surprised to hear that from him basically that people don't want to hear about politics from celebrities and said celebrities are 'out of touch' and (my quotation marks) "real Americans" don't identify with those celebrities... things along those lines I guess. In any case, people don't have to listen to what celebrities say about politics if they don't want to, but I see no reason why celebrities can't/shouldn't voice their opinions on the matter. Certainly there are some people out there who agree with them. Whatever. I don't remember exactly the points he made or his guest on the podcast so I'll end this part here. I get somewhat disappointed when eyelashes guy says something stupid (or more eloquently, something I disagree with) but I guess it comes with the territory, him being a conservative. So all I can do is just hope that the next political issue he decides to opine on is one where his opinion is one that I at least partially agree with. Who knows. We'll just have to wait and see.

On a sort of relevant topic to the previous paragraph, here are some thoughts about being "out of touch" as people in/around liberal city areas are called. Maybe, another way to look at things is that people out in the sticks of Texas and other Republican areas are the ones who are out of touch with the city folk. I wonder if they have ever considered that way of seeing it - it's always the people in the big liberal cities that are accused of being out of touch (of which I would say that I belong to... I wouldn't personally consider myself to be ashamed/otherwise unpleased with the state of supposedly being "out of touch," but I'm sure there are people who would be more than ready to criticize me for it).  

I'm kind of sick of writing this post about political issues so this will be the end of it. Probably why I don't plan on becoming a political writer or a politician. The subject can be kind of interesting sometimes, but other times or when you've just had too much of it it can be a drag. Particularly when eyelashes guy says something you disagree with. I'm not a professional political writer nor do I claim or plan to be one. However, sometimes the thoughts just need to be put to keyboard.