"Red State. Blue State. Me State. You State." - my personal reaction

It is fairly obvious that these two videos are biased. One is saying people in Blue States are evil and a threat to America, while the other says exactly the opposite. Their message is the same: We are the good and you should think as your parents do and don't be friends with the others.

So is that really everything the videos wants to tell us? No, after taking a closer look, it becomes clear that they are quite sarcastic and the extreme positions they take have a purpose. It made me think whether it's right to reduce people to a few simple statements in terms of politics. This is actually what the parties do in order to keep their voters. They just divide the whole country into blue and red and make people choose between either one of these two colours. However, there has to be another choice. Life consists of more than just red and blue, there are so many other colours. We just need to open our eyes, start thinking critically and make up our own opinion. It may be a mixture of red and blue or it may be a completely different colour but it would be what we believe and not what others want us to think.

In my opinion this is what the video really wants to tell us: People may think or believe whatever they want but at the end of the day we are all just human beings and should be more open-minded. Maybe we should just give it a try as the two children in the videos do and don't care too much about the other's political convictions. Eventually, it will make it easier to leave our fears behind and live together without suspecting anyone else of being a traitor.

Angelika Schmidt

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