[fearface]

It’s not ok, to not care about politics.

Everything that happens in the public space is political. As citizen of most countries, you have political rights and options. It’s ok to not care whichever label match to you, but you should care about actual policies, about changing values and who best represents you.

[porknubbins]

I think someone who says they are into politics or a “politics nerd” means to say they enjoy following the human drama of scandal, who is winning, who is unpopular etc in the same way some people follow sports teams, which is fine but does not interest me. Its interesting that we have a completely different term- a “policy wonk” for someone who is knowledgable about policy. I feel like I can care about policy without caring who represents me.

[disposekinetics]

The society I live in has values so alien and antithetical to my own that my choices are dread, or a kind of inward retreat control what you can and accept the rest apathy. Anything I invested would just result in me being more frustrated.