Something New

I’m by no means an expert in political thought. I’ve never studied politics, up until recently (Brexit, Trump, the mindfuckery of Theresa May’s wheat fuelled political suicide otherwise known as the snap election) politics has never really affected my life. I think that’s why, lately, I’ve been relatively quiet on the blog front. Since I stopped identifying with Christianity and ‘completed’ my deconstruction, I’ve had no real need to post about theology. Philosophy and ‘radical’ theology have interested me, but again, since God died, I’ve not many ideas interesting enough to blog about. Politics is something which I’ve had a growing interest in, and have touched on a couple of times in my blog but, most of the time, I’ve not felt confident enough in my understanding of politics to contribute anything meaningful.

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Snakes and Ladders

2016 has been a tough year for politics. We started with the EU referendum, where the United Kingdom shocked the world by voting to leave the European Union. Then this was well and truly Trumped (pun intended) by the presidential election in the United States. Both of these countries were split by two opposing sides, broadly speaking it was between liberal and conservative politics. To me, being unashamedly left wing, (I make no apology for that. I am, as my good friend so gracefully put it, a ‘fucking lefty liberal’ and proud!) the whole thing felt like a rather depressing game of snakes and ladders.

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Where is the Love?

The world feels like a pretty dark place right now. Brexit is happening, Donald Trump doesn’t seem to be going away, and I can’t turn on the news without hearing about another mass shooting or terror attack. The past couple of months I’ve seen more and more bigotry, racism, homophobia and sexism on social media from people I’m connected with than ever before. It has genuinely upset me, and I’ve struggled until now to write anything that I’ve been comfortable to post. Even today I’m not sure whether this will ever leave my increasingly growing collection of draft posts.

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