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: