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Politico's Political Cartoons-Its Ok to Chuckle!

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In recent years I have been thinking about politics a little more (the good and bad of it) and watching with intent the events as they unfold in the news bringing greater awareness of major political arguments and philosophical positions (Looking for similarities of position we might be able to agree upon.). What I can say is that sometimes its important to laugh at ourselves and take things with a grain of salt (As long as in a positive way.). Politics is sooo soo serious and people are sooo sooo serious about it! Yikes! ๐ŸคจYes, I think there is good reason to be serious about it because we have a responsibility to ensure that we are making the best decisions for the most amount of people. But......

As I watch politics I kind of get the jokes that I didn't get before. Its just that I didn't pay attention enough to the political landscape to truly understand the background that leads to awareness of the intended and implied meanings which make something comical. Let me say this, whether your Democrat or Republican its ok to sort of look at these cartoons and giggle (I'm not picking a side in the cartoons because I think I chuckled a little at most of them. I suspect if your in the public light your going to have a sketch made and some rib poking. I'm a conservative by nature but do try and understand the main arguments. I surround myself with friends and people of different backgrounds to gain better rounded perspective of people and find that much of politics 70% if puffs of smoke while 30% are essential and that is often where key points are flip sides of the same coin for Democrats and Republicans. These are national necessities where big ??? and unknowns/grey areas reside and people fall back on their hidden assumptions and root philosophical beliefs to navigate the "unknown".)

The Nations Cartoonists on the Week of Politics
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According to research conducted in the Department of Physiology at Wayne State University laughter brings about positive emotions and in turn connects communities, improves learning, and improves creativity (As long as people do it in good taste and don't get weird about it! ๐Ÿ˜ถ๐Ÿ™‰) (Savage, et. al., 2017). This is likely one reason why having positive environments can be a little fun gets things done! (๐Ÿง€). People just feel good about life when they laugh a little at things and take a little lighter approach to life; especially judging the choices of others in hindsight. COVID should have taught us a little more about what is and isn't important during our time. We will need to work together to solve some problems in a bi-partisan way. (As a conservative I believe its important to work with people across the isle on important issues that impact everyone. There will naturally be somethings where a more robust debate and discussion must happen to ferret out the the options but this is the messy process of general societal consensus. There are many things we can already agree upon if we break arguments down to their essential points and what we find is often there are additional agreements we didn't see prior.)

Savage B., Lujan, H.,Thipparthi, R. and DiCarlo, S. (2017) Humor, laughter, learning, and health! A brief review. Adv Physiol Educ 41: 341–347. Retrieved 09-17-21 https://journals.physiology.org/doi/pdf/10.1152/advan.00030.2017



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