When Did You Start Paying Attention To Politics?
POSTED BY: deepgirl187
UPDATED: Friday, December 6, 2024 04:01
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Ah ha! Chrisall -is- older than me.
But not by much.
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Children - quiet please
I need my pre- and post-dinner naps.
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You young'uns.
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ἰδιώτης was the Greek word for a "private person", someone who didn't take part in politics (ancient Greece being the birthplace of democracy) which is where we get the word "idiot" from.
That fits with my view: if you're not interested in politics, you're an idiot. Regretably democracy means your vote for the guy you'd like to have a beer with the most has the same value as someone who has thought long and hard and researched all the candidates.
I can't remember not being interested in politics. However the internet has allowed me to discover that while I initially thought I was a little right wing, I'm in fact a hardcore liberal on a global scale.
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I didn't give a damn about politics growing up, registered independent in college cause they all looked the same to me. And all those news channels seemed like sensationalists BS that didn't actually inform, only annoyed. I viewed politics like a dead cockroach in the work bathroom - icky, and someone else's job to deal with.
What scared me into really paying attention was the 2000 election. George Bush. So clearly a self-righteous, close-minded moron. Cheney, so clearly the personification of all that is wrong with corporate America (I work somewhat close to the oil industry and knew about that since way back...) And they got the nomination. That astounded me! And then the election... Bush's brother and the co-chair of his campaign played major roles in handing him the victory. OMG! What the hell? And the Supreme Court allowed it? This is not the country I was taught about in school...
It's been like watching an ongoing trainwreck since then. I still don't like politics, and I'd love to stick my head back in the sand, but can't do it.
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I still haven't. And I'm going for the record of never.
Politics just give me a headache. People bickering on stuff that almost has no effect on the economy.
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My grandfather was an anti-communist activist who lost his properties and livelihood because of his political activities (he was in China, then later Indonesia). My father, convinced that politics brings no good (seeing how he had to go hungry cause of his dad), doesn't go any further than reading newspapers.
But he read newspapers to me, and then discussed world politics with me for as far back as I can remember. I guess you can suppress it, but you can't drive it out. It's in the blood.
I grew up in dictatorships, from Singapore's police state, to the Shah's Iran, to a military dictatorship of Paraguay's Stroessner. You have to be somewhat politically aware, even as a child, to stay on the better side of the midnight knock.
I read Thoreau's Civil Disobedience in high school, and something clicked with me. I loved the idea that "government is best when it governs not at all." I tried being a Democrat for a while, since I went into the field of social work initially. Didn't see that it did much for the poor people I worked with.
Studied anarchism for a while, which is where my heart really lies. But I concluded that people were too lazy to be anarchists. They want someone to do some of the busy work for them. Settled on libertarianism as a compromise.
Got very involved with my state's Libertarian Party. Actually served as acting chair for the state LP until life got in the way.
I'm disillusioned with politics though. Not the LP, but politics as a vector of change. I think the country's beyond salvation, and we've gone beyond the point of no return. I see it plainly--it is just a matter of time before the USA ends up like the countries I grew up in.
So no more politics for me. Just run my mouth on RWED. And live outside of the country.
Can't Take My Gorram Sky 
Aude sapere (Dare to know). -- Samuel Hahnemann, M.D., founder of homeopathy
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"I'm disillusioned with politics though. Not the LP, but politics as a vector of change."
One needs to change the common philosophy before the politics changes.
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The hardest thing to change is a mind.
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Quote:Elaborate please? Thanks.
Originally posted by rue:
One needs to change the common philosophy before the politics changes.
Can't Take My Gorram Sky
Aude sapere (Dare to know). -- Samuel Hahnemann, M.D., founder of homeopathy
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Religions, Politics, Fascism, Communism, most of it the same BS
So now he's English, Canadian, Israeli Jewish and Mayflower Founding Father...who else is buying the bullshit
very ironic coming from a shape-shifter
JEW-el-Staitefan
Wow our shapeshifting Chameleon was all USA, USA back then...is anything this guy says true?
What are you calling yourself these days, US Citizen American? an Israeli? a Canadian???
You even cheer
the attacks that killed US military members, United States Naval officers, US marines, and civilians, wounded 171 crew members
now
would you like to explain
why You support the bombings and attacks on the USS Liberty!!!!
ON LOWERING THE VOTING AGE
https://digboston.com/on-lowering-the-voting-age/
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Originally posted by canttakesky:
I grew up in dictatorships, from Singapore's police state
However Singapore compared to today sounds fantastic, far better than a confused Demcoratic NeoCon schizo run shitshow
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OK. Fine. Lower the voting age.
But only if you allow those same children to smoke cigarettes and drink beer and serve in the military.
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Me: "Remember Covid?"
Useless Idiots: "What's Covid, durr? Russia, Ukraine, Putin, NATO *drool*. DURRRR!!!!"
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