Those were the days...
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Im aware that Obama is worthy of criticism, but it feels disingenuous to compare him to Trump? They’re polar opposites.
I used to just… not vote. Didn’t like the people running but they were all mostly the same in my eyes. “Do I want this rich old white dude or that rich old white dude”
I didn’t even bother.
Then a rich old white dude came around that was actually measurably worse than the other rich old white dudes. So I had to start voting against him.
It sucks. I want to go back to not caring.
I’m torn. I do want you to care, because people like you with your head in the right place not caring may have contributed to politics getting to the place it is.
But I want politics to be boring again, too. So shall we say, when this blows over, back to caring intermittently, like a little, around elevation times?
The whole lesson here if we live to learn it should be that even when politics are boring, they’re still important. When all you see are old white dudes, it’s the people you elected that put them there - not the presidents themselves, but everyone else on the ballot in your local and state elections that you probably never even thought about, much less made an informed vote for.
If all your ever did was think about your presidential vote - or didn’t even bother to do that - then you specifically voted for the status quo, namely, the old white dudes. If you want change during the boring times you need to go and make it with your vote. I get it - I was the same “what’s the point?” voter, but I’m not anymore, and I’d hope anyone who lived through this will have grown that much at least.
Yeah, I think catching up to and acting upon the political news that either I can influence or that can influence me once a week (with exception of really urgent and important ones, but I’ll probably hear about those either way) should be a good balance between inactivity and burnout.
Well this is actually the root of the problem. USians not caring about politics until they are personally affected. Of course you didnt have to think about Obama, because he was only slaughtering brown people in foreign countries and not on your doorstep.