Opinion Is it possible to be apolitical?

[Yoricks Wisdom]

or you mine.
perfect.

 

[Stoic1]

I find that apolitical types are generally very ignorant of history and current events. It's as if they cannot understand action and consequence. Their temporal understanding is the here and now. It's like they are walking forward at a slow speed looking down at their feet. I would best describe them as myopic.

 

[UberHere]

There is actually way too much of this in this Country, and much of that is by design. Consumerism has made us a complacent people who believe our jobs define us.

I don’t know about that. Unless you want to go back to subsistence living and 40 year life expectancies, jobs are essential for keeping civilization going in its current form. It’s a pretty easy life these days in first world countries compared to what it was prior to the early 1900’s. There’s ajways going to be elitists who think they’re more important than others based upon booodline, divine decree, or profession,

 

[UberHere]

I find that apolitical types are generally very ignorant of history and current events. It's as if they cannot understand action and consequence. Their temporal understanding is the here and now. It's like they are walking forward at a slow speed looking down at their feet. I would best describe them as myopic.

Or they’re aware enough to know it’s a futile endeavor past local politics .

 

[Kingz]

Yes. It’s possible as a large portion of people don’t know and don’t care about politics at all.

In everyday settings, It’s a lot more common to meet somebody who can be considered apolitical than somebody who is as passionate about politics as the people you argue on the internet with.

Even a massive portion of people who do engage with politics by voting would fit the profile of apolitical and have no strong feelings, knowledge or interest about signature political positions. Economic or social.

Which is usually why things that have nothing to do with politics like look, charisma and likability figure so heavily into political campaigns. Why candidates will spend some time delving into positions that are near universal to make themselves seem more like an everyday APOLITICAL person. Because even elections are decided by the politically, though not civically, disengaged.

And for as many of those types that participate in elections, even more don’t participate in politics even on that level because they’re apolitical

 

[Sinister]

I don’t know about that. Unless you want to go back to subsistence living and 40 year life expectancies, jobs are essential for keeping civilization going in its current form. It’s a pretty easy life these days in first world countries compared to what it was prior to the early 1900’s. There’s ajways going to be elitists who think they’re more important than others based upon booodline, divine decree, or profession,

Yes, and those elitists still very much like it if a machine operator in a warehouse spends the majority of every day of his life merely machine operating regardless of what his passionate and talents actually are. That is, until they can program a robot to do it, then they're happy if he just dies.

Convenience arguing is another aspect of consumerism, sounding like another of those "world of tomorrow" ads from the 50's when Bernays changed advertising into convincing people how awesome it was to work jobs they hate to buy sh*t they dont need, in an effort to conveniently raise kids who don't listen.

But no I'd definitely rather move forward than backward. I just dont think the wealthy elites are right in their long-standing belief that politics and education are rich men's territory, ya know because they're just born better.

 

[Corona]

Its possible but its rare. In todays environment you'll be shamed by people(typically extreme leftists) if you try to avoid politics. Say what you will about the MAGA morons but they rarely go around and try to bully people into joining them.

 

[GreatSaintGuillotine]

You can seperate yourself from parties pretty easily. Separating yourself from political issues is nearly impossible

 

[Evbo]

I enforce apoliticality when I'm with my family. It's not that we all have radically different views (in fact going by the misery on Reddit I seem to be in the 1% of people who actually love and get on with all their family members, lucky me) but anytime there's any small quibbles I try to make a point of tossing water on any rising embers and tell them to take it to whatsapp after the family event is done

 

[Michaelangelo]

You don’t need to be connected to a political party to care about politics.

That’s like telling an agnostic/athiest his opinion doesn’t matter about religion. I’m sure Christopher Hitchens would laugh about that.

 

[Contempt]

Of course... not any of you fucking loon's in the feelings room though

 

[UberHere]

Its possible but its rare. In todays environment you'll be shamed by people(typically extreme leftists) if you try to avoid politics. Say what you will about the MAGA morons but they rarely go around and try to bully people into joining them.

Progressives are the true deplorables. They’re non religious but they use religiosity in their politics to instill a sense of moral superiority and justify their own evil intentions. See the TS as a prime example of this.

I’m not sure how I’d classify @KAZSoliloquy politically. He’s certainly on the far left, but he sees that for what it is. Socialist?
Either way, you see people as people and not infidels that need to be converted to your side.

 

[panamaican]

Yes. It's possible. It's hard though because politics affects our lives and it's discussed pretty much everywhere.

But the reality is that 99% of the political news cycle is irrelevant to our day to day lives and without forced discussions, most of us would never even know what the political parties are doing.

That said, the entire point of democracy is that everyone should have a voice in politics. So it's probably harder to achieve in democracies than in dictatorships or monarchies.

 

[Ezekiel 25:17]

It's honestly the healthiest solution. When it comes up in public, I just state I think all politicians are glorified snake oil salesmen. People nod and we proceed to talk about something like how shitty the schools have become....which leads back to politics. Lol

 

[Lycandroid]

of course, most women who are significantly attractive do not care one lick about politics of any kind

 

[Romulas]

The most feasible way to be apolitical is probably to be intentionally uninformed

It's called willingful ignorance. You have to actively work at it. I've been doing it for a few years now. You still hear about what's going on, usually a few days or weeks late, but you save energy not actively discussing news topics or waiting in anticipation for updates on the stories.

After you do it for a while you realize that nothing in the news really matters to your day to day. When you encounter people that are all mad about the newest out rage you laugh at the inside and then feel bad for them.

 

[nhbbear]

I don’t consider myself apolitical, but I have been accused as such (like it’s a negative thing) and according to the definition, I am apolitical. I consider myself a centrist with views that align with either side depending on the issue but never so much that I would consider myself dem or rep.

lol. Just realized whose thread this was and it’s the cunt that called me a spineless weasel for being apolitical. In fact, I am solely responsible for trump getting into office because I refused to vote for either candidate because they both sucked. I had to choose between my gun rights and whatever trump is doing to our country currently. It’s like choosing to cut off your finger or slam your testicles in a car door

 

[Mack Yancy]

Yes. The sanest most mentally well off people are apolitical.

But that doesn't include you, you're a trump supporter.


It does include @nhbbear though, but not for the reasons that @WklySportsMemes wants it to.

 

[RemyR]

I guess it all depends on what someone considers apolitical. I take a very pessimistic view on the two party system but still wind up commenting on politics (hence me posting here). I have some views that are considered "far right" and some that would label me a "leftist".

I do my best to try and separate the person from policy and party but no one's perfect including me.

 

[EL CORINTHIAN]

Take any one you perceive as apolitical and explain to them, as simply as possible, how left wing or right wing governance works.

They'll naturally gravitate to one over the other almost every time.

Some people are even simpler than that. They look at a time that was materially/culturally better and they just subscribe to that ideology. I've seen this work on both extreme ends of the spectrum. I've seen people who thought certain places were better under a monarchy and others who grew up under the Soviet Union who related that to better times.