Apply that to anything else you wish. As far as I know we don't priorly choose to be born as we are or get to choose our parents. We play the hand we are dealt and have no voice in it. Now some of you will say it's up to you to do good with it? I ask you this. No matter how hard broccoli tries to be pineapple it will never change what it is.
People are like that too. No magic wand that turns them into that which they are not and can never be.
Politically it sticks out biglier than anywhere. Republicans despise Dems and Dems likewise despise them. Why? They didn't CHOOSE to be that. That they are that pleases them very bigly because they think it's the cat's pajamas to be them. Sheesh. Arguments based on differences we cannot help are ridiculous. Our brains are wired thus and such. Period. Get over it.
A pineapple has a unique function - being a pineapple. No matter how much it wishes it were a broccoli or how hard it tries to be a broccoli, it will always be a pineapple. It may go around wearing a broccoli costume. It may paint itself green. It may chant, “I am a broccoli, I am a broccoli” until it’s yellow in the face. It may pay others to say it’s a broccoli. It may take classes on how to act like broccoli. It may even have the courts change its name to broccoli. But in the end it will still be a pineapple.
Likewise, people have a unique function – being themselves. Each person has their own unique “wiring”, if you will. It’s this wiring that gives each of them their own unique aptitudes and a way to use them. No matter how hard they try or how much they wish they were something else or not the way they are, they can never change that. Sadly, instead of embracing their unique personality, many people strive to change themselves (this is not to say they can’t better themselves or hone their abilities).
When it comes to being a republican or a democrat, that is strictly a personal choice. One must choose which party they wish to join when they register to vote - and they can change it anytime they wish. Unfortunately, people tend to lose themselves in party politics. They come to believe that their party is the best. In realty, neither party is better. It’s only selfish pride that gives them any power.
Shuhak 