When I was in college, the last thing I thought about was politics. Even more so in high school. Sure, there was election hype during the primaries. However, to try and say I ordered my identity and everyday consciousness around politics would have been absurd. That was too busy skateboarding playing video games and having fun.
When did this shift happen where people’s lack of religious attendance slowly shifted into the political realm and their morality and politics became one? Why are there people right now below the age of 30 obsessing about politics nonstop? Why not choose happiness and have fun?
It became “my thing” around when I turned 19. I had previously been exposed to a bunch of conspiracy theories that I never really bought into by a friend and in trying to learn more about it all I ended up following politics more, eventually learning my way out of the conspiracy land and instead watching the decline of the US for myself instead of having some internet weirdos say it’s the Jews or the annunaki…
It’s unfortunately more of a sick addiction now, I feel like I need to follow what is happening even though it just makes me extraordinarily depressed, seeing how no matter what we as a population will always be lead to make the wrong decisions and how there are so many people that revel in hatred and inflicting pain on “others.”
The more I learned about politics the stronger my support became for my candidate:
This is kind of like asking a man being attacked by a bear, “When did bears become your whole thing?”
Or are you simply falling in a trap and exchanging your happiness for outrage because it’s addictive, easier to achieve, and requires less vulnerability.
Man, did you choose the wrong instance for this take.
What is Lemmy.today like? Isn’t it just a generalist instance?
It’s tiny enough I have no associations with it. And OP is a new account - maybe a throwaway.
Most people agree with them IRL, though, so it’s not like it’s shocking to hear from any corner of the internet.
Yea, I guess that checks out.
No.
Fuck off you fucking loser
Anyone with a brain who is a member of the working class should be immediately and innately political as soon as they are exposed to even the slightest fraction of society. Everything is political, and it’s politics that dictate that they will largely work for the benefit of a vanishingly small class of parasites until they die an early death because politics also dictate that their healthcare will be unaffordable, as will their education, etc.
If you respond with some “oh you’re just victim blaming yourself” shit like you did the other guy i’ll upgrade calling you a loser to saying you should be actively murdered
Politics isn’t “my thing.” I have hobbies, I like to read, play video games, make espresso, work out, play tennis, TTRPGs, etc. I have friends, a partner, a job. I also do some light organizing work, read theory, and talk about politics a lot on social media (basically on Lemmy).
For me, I started learning more about politics through college, and that skyrocketed once I hit the workforce. It has nothing to do with religion, and it isn’t about my “morality and politics becoming one.” I can’t just stand as an idle passerby while my country commits genocide and imperialism around the world, while it destroys protections for marginalized people and workers within my country, while people I love and care for are targeted.
If anyone wants a place to start with reading theory, I made an intro Marxist-Leninist reading list, feel free to check it out! It’s aimed at absolute beginners.
During and due to the reign of Helmut Kohl. A chancellor who put the sake of the party over his oath of office. There were large donations to his party of unknown origin, and he claimed that he had given the donor his word of honor not to tell where the money came from. And that was it. No prosecution, no consequences.
This is for me simply unacceptable. Our Grundgesetz (constitution) says that anybody is equal before the law, and here someone was obviously more equal than others.
In high school, but not much party politics, I mostly read old anarchists. At college you kinda have to go through the post-structuralist course, but it was then that I got more into reading economy and post/neokeynesianism - which wasn’t even part of the stuff I had to study…
I used to care about arguing about politics and economy, but since my 30s politics became “not my thing” because I watched American politics being spread through Twitter and young people reading more trending American internet liberal activists instead of their local union newspapers, and then I watched all the biggest media conglomerates of my country raising the flag of those activists and they believing they are “winning” without realizing they became so harmless they are being mocked. Nowadays, I just believe we absolutely deserve everything that we get.I’m particularly tired of the echo chambers social media created that turned everything in an “us vs them” mentality that when you don’t agree 100% on every topic you are a them and an enemy and everyone is under that homogenizing peer-pressure to conform… and I include the Fediverse on that, it’s the same crap. I don’t feel like being a part of any “us”, especially because I see everything corrupted by the American WASP-culture addiction to guilty and shaming that equally encompass conservatives and liberals, as the “us vs them” slowly kills all the real transgressive. I want distance from all the “us”.
