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Oct 19, 20:04 Politics

I really have no special love of politics, or even political discussions. Somehow I always let myself be sucked into them, as you can see from my last few entries. Due to my lack of love for the field, I respect politicians who are capable of putting themselves in the crossfire of political debate – a place I would never want to be. As Bob Dylan said, and supposedly Abe Lincoln before him, “Half the people can be part right all of the time, and some of the people can be all right part of the time, but all of the people can’t be all right all of the time” (World War III Blues). With money, relationships, ideologies, and lives all at stake, this makes politics a disastrous, though necessary, discipline.

Personally, I’d rather be talking theology, philosophy, or (especially) literature. I promise myself that the preceding paragraph are the last words on politics that will appear on Coal, apart from those in the comments section, for the next while.