As of writing this, today is my mom's birthday, and she was met with the unfortunate news that a prominent political figure in which she follows has been senselessly murdered. Below is what I feel about the present state of politics. It will always be a work in progress as I'd be ignorant to hold onto ideas permanentely without any sort of change.
We're cool. Humans are just cool. We can think of concepts that extend far more abstract than anything else in nature can. We come up with ideas, and through manipulating vibrations in the air with our vocal chords, we can transmit those ideas to other humans. Doing this, we're able to cooperate and devise systems invisible to nature to help raise the quality of life, extend our knowledge, etc.
That is a wonderful system in it of itself. If someone disagrees, then people can justify why they believe their idea is correct, hopefully by basing it with facts or widely agreed upon axioms of society.
Within our brains, we've invented government, and later on, politics: complex systems to help ensure order and happiness. And all is well with the world.
Of course, this is an over-idealization of humanity. Through our grapple of facts and unfortunate yet mandatory connection to complicated and primal emotions, we've also ensured pain and suffering for many humans. With our feelings and times of desperation, in which we do not often reason logically, we've given rise to lethal devices and inhumane regimes.
Today, humans influence each other with their own axioms of a perfect world. These axioms often contradict, and it causes lots of disagreement between us. Systems that we've set up have benefitted from these contradictions and disagreements. Career politicians, humans who have devoted their lives to influencing other abstract systems like legislation, benefit from disagreements at times. At some point, we've just stopped using reason and logic, and resorted to our primal emotions to share corrupt, incorrect, or unfinished ideas. We've become no better than "primitive" humans thousands of years ago, living in a modern world.
Anyway, how is this relevant to today? Through our reasoning and emotions, we've formed this idea of "left versus right," where each direction generally encapsulates a series of ideas, and unfortunately axioms, into one label. A human, controversial in our modern world, advocated for many of the ideas under the "right" abstraction. Remember when we could use logic and reasoning to invent the best ideas to incorporate into government? That didn't happen today. Instead, the human was murdered in front of thousands of other humans attending his session of idea-sharing.
We're beginning to kill our own system of logic and reason. Some humans have adopted an axiom (a dangerous choice) that our society is under an existential threat, an abstract idea which implies an imminent great undoing of a large system, at the hands of the opposing party. We humans need to return to reason. We need to remember that from discussions and disagreements, ideas can flourish peacefully.