Fair enough, but continuing to let others ignore politics isn't acceptable either.
I really don't care how little interest anyone has in politics, it's not the same as being disinterested in, say, sports, or music. This is policy we're talking about, and it often affects all of us.
Lack of awareness in politics shields people from the initial moral outrage, yes. But, given the option to behave like them and choose not to invest my time in politics, I would decline that option because I'm already aware of the state of our politics now, and I can't just simply forget it.
So what am I left to do, then? Moral outrage isn't a choice, it's a natural reaction. I can temper my outrage by educating myself about my options, although, that just further-solidifies investing my time in politics.
I feel like I'm being given the option "if you can't beat them, join them".
I also cannot stress enough that the fever-pitch of outrage you're probably witnessing now is in response to a fever-pitch of RADICAL and INTENSE change. I'm not sure what else one would expect when Trump, by his own admission, is going for "shock and awe".
If you've ever seen anything equivalent to what you're seeing now in politics, I encourage you to share your experience. In my life, I've never seen an administration try to gut NIH, DOE, and USAID in the first 3 weeks. I've never seen a made-up DOGE department, let by a guy who did a sieg heil.
I've never seen so many attempts to put so many wildly unqualified people in cabinet positions.
I really don't feel like waiting until things get so bad that I can rightly say "I told you so", because based on your posts, I shouldn't even say that since I could risk being ostracized by my friends.
It's okay for folks to do the work of their lives.
I'm politically engaged and figuring out what I can do right now. I'm not freaking out. More like angry and scared, trying to move forward and not be paralyzed.
Schrödinger's leftist: simultaneously too small a constituency to bother proposing policies that would win over their vote but also large enough to blame for every election loss
I am still interacting with people that are choosing to put there head in the sand and ignore what is going on.
However, I am noting who is doing it and am reminded about what my family said about the people did the same thing under Il Duce/Hitler, & what those people went on to do.
I' ma also noticing that the people who claimed they would be the first line of defense in the Nazi resistance are the ones most likely to be doing nothing now.
the terminally online curmudgeons exist, but for me it isn't about disdain so much as it feels like gaslighting when someone tells me it's going to be fine or pretends it's going to be fine.
i had to cut off a friend for my mental health because he's white and cis and just doesn't see it
I pastor a congregation of Afro-Caribbean folks and parent two special needs kids. I'm not trying to be "strong for them" but I just can't go about life right now dooming with every breath. It's performative and not helping me or others.
Of course not. But it's a leap of logic to see that someone is not currently publicly freaking out about a thing, and infer from that that they are therefore okay with that thing.
Exactly! This attack accusing Dems of being “morally superior” gets old. Frankly, it’s lazy, arrogant BS. Not wanting to be around people who support Trump or are not worried about what’s going on, is a way to protect one’s mental health for those of us in communities that are being persecuted.
Usually when someone is already fucking you up, you fight back. But you want to find common ground with people too stupid to see Trump of all people for what he is, while they absolutely FUCK you up. Buhbye social safety net, health care and research, women and minority rights, freedom FROM religion
Pretending that 🇺🇸 is not on 🔥 (morally, ethically, politically, psychologically) or even trying 2 escape n2 your padded cell called home as if big system shifts that hold the USA together aren’t being attacked (e.g., data theft in the light of day by an unelected Afrikaner) doesn’t redeem us either.
Then you get the point. Sally's final decision was to just stick her head in the sand and stay in Berlin as though the Nazis weren't about to gain absolute power.
Anyone who wants to stick their heads in the sand like that can't be reasoned with and shouldn't be bothered with.
100%, and like…. are people just supposed to stop going to their jobs and seeing their friends so they can spend all their time at protests?? Losing your house, your last semblance of sanity, or your life is not going to help The Revolution
My only thought here is that some of the loudness you hear of people who are sounding alarms and bells (like me) is that we are trying to rally everyone together because eventually our choice to do nothing will be taken from us. I'm prepared to act if I need, but I don't WANT the NEED to act.
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I really don't care how little interest anyone has in politics, it's not the same as being disinterested in, say, sports, or music. This is policy we're talking about, and it often affects all of us.
I feel like I'm being given the option "if you can't beat them, join them".
I also cannot stress enough that the fever-pitch of outrage you're probably witnessing now is in response to a fever-pitch of RADICAL and INTENSE change. I'm not sure what else one would expect when Trump, by his own admission, is going for "shock and awe".
I really don't feel like waiting until things get so bad that I can rightly say "I told you so", because based on your posts, I shouldn't even say that since I could risk being ostracized by my friends.
I'm politically engaged and figuring out what I can do right now. I'm not freaking out. More like angry and scared, trying to move forward and not be paralyzed.
We all worked our asses off to defeat authoritarianism
We're all supporting our communities & raising our voices to pols
No one should listen to leftists who sat at home & are only now freaking out
However, I am noting who is doing it and am reminded about what my family said about the people did the same thing under Il Duce/Hitler, & what those people went on to do.
Again, a warning from my elders haunts me.
i had to cut off a friend for my mental health because he's white and cis and just doesn't see it
I can not be friends with someone who doesn’t think that my Black, Brown, Asian and Native American friends are not worthy of wonderful things
The racism, sexism, misogyny shouldn’t be tolerated
My dog is morally superior to the 🍊💩
He is a very good boy…
I pastor a congregation of Afro-Caribbean folks and parent two special needs kids. I'm not trying to be "strong for them" but I just can't go about life right now dooming with every breath. It's performative and not helping me or others.
I feel neither comfortable nor safe around people who are okay with that.
it’s not that they are ‘ok’ it’s that it’s too destabilizing not to be.
outrage is a luxury that some of us can engage with, but not all.
the kids still have to be fed, natch.
Anyone who wants to stick their heads in the sand like that can't be reasoned with and shouldn't be bothered with.