But you’re not asking about anybody’s business. You are telling them something.
Fuck no that’s not the ideal. The ideal is that we support a political system that enables our neighbors to live freely and accomplish their dreams. If you are free, but your neighbor is oppressed by the political system that grants your freedom, that’s a long goddamn way from ideal.
That’s not a thing.
But, if your neighbor is being oppressed by a political system, you have to get rid of that political system or at the very least minimize its impact on your neighbor.
Therefore, not being impacted by politics is the ideal.
Politics is the means by which a democracy makes changes to itself, rectifies old problems, addresses new challenges, and works to improve the lives of its citizens as circumstances change.
A world in which politics doesn’t have much impact on many people’s lives is probably a world where everything’s already pretty close to perfect and nothing changes much.
That is an impossible ideal. And with all do respect, a foolish one at the end of the day. You will ALWAYS be impacted by politics, which is just the negotiation of governance. And we are all governed. You can try ignoring politics as much as possible - but it is still going to affect your life, like it or not.
That’s the dream. One day.
Key sentence there. I don’t think people need governance as much as we think we do.
Many people would agree with you. Unfortunately you are all wrong :). The larger the society, pretty much the more governance is required, directly or indirectly. I regard it as pretty much as inevitable as math. Go off to form a commune in the wilderness somewhere with a couple of dozen like-minded buddies and you can make most anything work. A modern society of hundreds of millions? Nope.
I have a couple of friends and some co-workers who are mild libertarians, I’ve known one or two who lean towards left-anarchism and I’ve known many, many Marxists. The one thing they all have in common is utopian idealism. Sadly, utopias do not and can not exist. It fundamentally goes against human nature.
This reminds me of that scene in Office Space:
I agree with EscAlaMike. Someone telling me not to forget to vote is pretty insulting. That sounds like your mom reminding you to wash behind your ears.
Maybe if you are in a area/demographic that tends to have high voter apathy or low voter turnout it might make sense? Somewhere it is assumed that you won’t vote?
I am a grown adult and I can make decisions on if I vote or not. I don’t need you to “remind” me like I’m some kind of idiot.
I have made the argument many times that the US is too big and too powerful.
I believe the total state mentality of the past hundred years or so, which you illustrated in your statements “The larger the society, pretty much the more governance is required, directly or indirectly” and “A modern society of hundreds of millions? Nope” is an illusion. It’s a deeply entrenched illusion, but it’s an illusion nonetheless.
I’m no utopian, at least I try not to be. I’m not a revolutionary, and I’m all for practical ways to promote human flourishing.
And if the GOP does poorly, Trump will lose his cool in ways we can only imagine. It will be much worse than this year.
Good. It all depends on the GOP doing VERY poorly. If so, OrangeMAGAFuck will be exposed. I still think the only thing that will throttle his base is criminal financial charges against him. We shall see.
Are you kidding me? I can think of very few things that aren’t emergencies that is more everyone’s business than voting. HOW you vote, now that is private. THAT you vote, that’s a civic duty.
It’s practically become the new “have a good one” around here. Of course, it’s Massachusetts.
Alabama: 26% Black
Oregon: 2% Black
If we are talking about representation.
Trump will rage daily; he will fatally poison the public discourse. I would not be shocked if, one year after the GOP loses the house, reporters will need bodyguards. Not just have them, need them.
No, I will be shocked. What I won’t be is surprised.
Agreed. And even then it might take an actual guilty verdict.
”Oh, well, pardon me,” he said.
Are you kidding me?
I live in a deep blue state, and haven’t heard strangers in public telling each other “Don’t forget to vote.”
Campaign workers, get out the vote folks, tv/radio ads, sure. People at the grocery store? Never.
It’s probably just you.