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Truthfully though, i think a lot of those people are ok with either. They don't view politics as making any difference in their day-to-day lives and/or may be too busy or otherwise engaged to pay attention to the news (or perhaps even disinterested!). I know some people who are more or less apolitical. They don't talk about politics, they don't think about politics, and they don't seem overly concerned since Trump took office again. That's just in my small orbit though -- there are millions of people out there that have much different views than most of us here.
I sometimes think we get wrong idea about how popular are views/beliefs are because we're hanging out in an echo chamber to some degree.
but I'm sure that have opinions about the price of well... everything.
do they just not think it matters? are they wealthy enough not to care, or do they just not think much?
I wonder the same. I think part of it is the way we were educated about politics growing up. Also the fact we're taught about most of it when we can't vote.
they have zero control over it. wealthy or not.
just like they had zero control over the toilet paper shortages during the pandemic. i remember having to go to like four different stores to find a 6pack of toilet paper in may 2020.
Bingo.
Nobody thinks finer points of political policy is more important than the people who wonk about it all day as a hobby.
Most average people dont' even know these things exist. They are thinking about what they will eat tonight for dinner or whether to stay home and watch TV or go out to the local bar. Hence why the increase in food prices more or less fucked the Democrats... because people notice when food/gas goes up.
Personally I just gave up in some ways too. It gets old listening to people rant on about transrights every other day. Which a lot of my more political friends have been doing the past few years. What they don't get is that transrights are irrelevant to like 95% of the population, even though they think that it's the most pressing moral issue of our lifetime and its the hill they have chose to grandstand on for whatever reason. And my lack of passion for this issue gets me labeled as transphobic by these same folks. And while I support transrights... I just don't want to scream about it everyday on social media like they do.