So we read something on Reddit today that basically said that it's better for your quality of life if you don't pay attention or engage in politics. At this point, we're inclined to agree.
Between a buffoonish thug of a president to an election-stealing governor criminalizing a woman's right to choose, between the abysmal choices we're offered on the ballot to foreign meddling in our election, we feel like our single vote doesn't mean a thing, and all the stress caused by paying attention and getting dragged into politics just isn't worth it.
We'll pay whatever tax they demand of us (as if we had a choice anyway) and obey the laws of the land rather than face the consequences, and leave it at that. As one person commented,
Political discussion is so heavily obfuscated by the lowest level of stupidity, like imbeciles screaming about opening our borders, building walls, who is the most oppressed, who can go in what bathroom, climate change is a hoax, hats are racism, zygotes deserve equal rights, etc. Picking through all of that inanity until you can get to genuine propositions or real discourse takes time that so many of us just don't have. I give a shit but I don't have several hours a night to sift deeply through the internet to find real policies and real discourse. Where are tax policies discussed? When are genuine solutions to real problems ever discussed? Not if a trans person is validated as a woman; that's not a real problem. The possible food shortages in 50 years due to rapid, unforeseen climate change is a real problem, as is corporate money purchasing officials who enjoy the "free healthcare" that we purchase for them but which they won't provide back to us. When is this discussed? Rarely, if at all.
Or as Winston Churchill once said, "The best argument against democracy is a 5-minute conversation with the average voter."
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