Political education in the US is designed to churn out peoole who unironically say shit like that and simultaneously believe that they are radical and unique from everyone else saying the sane thing
When I was a very young adult, I believed that for a bit. The idea thay the truth lies between two extremes was reinforced for me regularly growing up. I “heard ‘both’ sides” because I falsely believed they both had a kernel of truth. I felt incredibly smug about being immune to the things others fell for
how do you get to the age of being a grown, functional adult and still believe this
This is just the smug centrist line these people say, when in reality they agree with 99% of the fascist online discourse and think “the left” are the big enemy.
I think they meant that they do not follow any one political ideology or worldview. Which I guess is fine, as long as they still have reasonable responses to the issues they see around them.
like I get what you’re saying and I’m just being a bit coy here but if you follow no one you would have to go out of your way to tailor your thoughts to be contrarian compared to great thinkers of the past and present
it’s just a bad way to look at your own ideology even if you do genuinely process a lot of this information independently. all of humanity’s greatest work is a collaborative effort improving what came before. if you’re ignoring what came before, you’re just leaving holes in your ideology to be exploited.
It just means that they have no idea what they’re talking about, don’t know any of the ideologies in any detail and can not place their own politics appropriately.
99.9% chance this person falls into one of the ideologies extremely clearly but they’re simply not politically active or educated enough to know.
Absolutely. The “best” you’ll get from people like this is knowing what policies democrats and republicans claim to support, and they think some are good and others are bad. Although even then a lot of the time it’s shit like “I’m pro life but I don’t want to impose that on other people.” or “I’m pro education.”
how do you get to the age of being a grown, functional adult and still believe this
political education is down the shitter
this is the kind of guy who looks you dead in the eyes and describes himself as a “lone wolf” without a hint of irony
Political education in the US is designed to churn out peoole who unironically say shit like that and simultaneously believe that they are radical and unique from everyone else saying the sane thing
That’s not unique to amerika. Its a Liberalism thing. kkkanadians are no better.
We’re arguably worse on that front
I know some canadian leftishists and their nationalism is very strange compared to their professed beliefs.m
When I was a very young adult, I believed that for a bit. The idea thay the truth lies between two extremes was reinforced for me regularly growing up. I “heard ‘both’ sides” because I falsely believed they both had a kernel of truth. I felt incredibly smug about being immune to the things others fell for
Same person is convinced they are 100% impervious to marketing and propaganda.
This is just the smug centrist line these people say, when in reality they agree with 99% of the fascist online discourse and think “the left” are the big enemy.
I don’t know how you can get to this point and manage not to drown in the shower
Based on their spelling and punctuation, they could actually still be a child.
What’s the point? How would you go about bringing your very specific form of governance to fruition?
I think they meant that they do not follow any one political ideology or worldview. Which I guess is fine, as long as they still have reasonable responses to the issues they see around them.
but how do you follow no one
like I get what you’re saying and I’m just being a bit coy here but if you follow no one you would have to go out of your way to tailor your thoughts to be contrarian compared to great thinkers of the past and present
it’s just a bad way to look at your own ideology even if you do genuinely process a lot of this information independently. all of humanity’s greatest work is a collaborative effort improving what came before. if you’re ignoring what came before, you’re just leaving holes in your ideology to be exploited.
It just means that they have no idea what they’re talking about, don’t know any of the ideologies in any detail and can not place their own politics appropriately.
99.9% chance this person falls into one of the ideologies extremely clearly but they’re simply not politically active or educated enough to know.
Absolutely. The “best” you’ll get from people like this is knowing what policies democrats and republicans claim to support, and they think some are good and others are bad. Although even then a lot of the time it’s shit like “I’m pro life but I don’t want to impose that on other people.” or “I’m pro education.”