It’s not that politics don’t matter—obviously the policies of our politicians affect people’s lives in grand and small ways, but what I’m talking about is the spectacle of politics. The thing that robs us of all capacity to see nuance and to find the humanity in others beyond the political label. Back in the ICU all the people who came to help me could have been from diverse political viewpoints, but they weren’t fighting with one another. They were working together around a common cause: love for me.
