Election time has come upon us yet again. And the time has come to choose another set of leaders who would best represent us. Yet I feel that as we saturate ourselves inside our social media platforms, we become even more closed-off and separated.
Our social media sites have become a series of hateful, angry posts recklessly strung in a world devoid of accountability. We have become distrusting to our fellow men just because he campaigns a leader different from ours. Everything is assumed to be black propaganda. And when we cannot use reason to voice out our opinion, we dehumanize and deconstruct our opponent to brash utterances, grammatical flaws and physical quirks.
Why do we waste our time fighting each other when we should be monitoring our candidates? We want accountability yet push for a person who allegedly kills his opposers, we want transparency when we can't even condemn the man who has stolen taxes for his own gain, we want change but we can't even change our voting behavior; rooted in traditional politicking, misplaced charisma, perceived popularity of the candidate and regionalism. We want to uphold our rights, but we disrespect each other. And the most ironic of all, we want to impose discipline, when we can't even cross the street properly or avoid throwing derogatory words at that girl who wore shorts on a hot day or that man in that wheel chair.
We are walking contradictions of our perceived selves. We revel and parade ourselves in the light of self-righteousness. We are right and everyone else is just background noise.
And if we were to be completely honest, one only wants change when it puts him in a position of power. We are not so different from the politicians we hate.
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