Hello, I plan to withdraw from political debates. That brought me to make and assessment about what I learned. I'm 32 and started to be interested in politics when I was 12. I argued for ten years about french politics and started to become bored and needed to change of landscape, that's why I got interested in american politics. 20 years ago, I was a radical leftist. I ended to be disgusted by the left. A lot of things intervened : opening history books, opening economy books, some people showing my mistakes. Probably the behavour of a lot of leftists toward people living in unsecured districts was among the things that disgusted me the most of the left. I can't say however I became a centrist or appreciated much more the right wing. More time spend, more I consider that trying to think with categories like "liberal" "conservative" "right winged" or "left winged" is debilitating. I lost any confidence into any politician. I lost my confidence in newspapers aswell, mostly when I realized their biased behavour when speaking of the european union, wars, how they pushed fir the election of people like Macron or the other presidents before them. Some years ago, I wanted to learn through newspaper, now I barely read them anymore. I can't say I have a lot of faith in democracy left. People often think "he must be for a dictatorship then", absolutly not. I just can't motivate myself anymore for the joke that are most elections. I'm still young, maybe things will change. What's the plan now ? I hope I will find a way to live to the countryside, growing my vegetables, reading books and withdrawing from the internet. Considering my health condition,that won't be easy. I don't think that this society would last a very long time when considering, for instance, the debt level, I suppose there would be an important human, financial, and ressources crisis in the future that would make 1927 looks like a joke, I hope I will be wrong. The most positive about that is that my lost of faith in politics made me realize that the most precious actions remained gifts and to volunteer.
You are jaded. That’s a normal reaction. I started following politics when I was 10 in 1972 (see avatar). I’m recently burned out on politics. It took me almost 50 years to realize that no matter how much common sense I brought to the table as a conservative, convincing the liberal mind to abandon illogic is like tilting at windmills. It’s pointless. So I’ve essentially given up.
You are wiser and younger than me, OP. Your plan is one way to be happy, and wish you the best with it. Other than the taxes we pay to central government, most of our lives are lived locally, and agree that volunteering is an excellent use of precious time. It is also a way to meet higher quality people.
As soon as one realizes that both parties are whore houses comprised of hookers, pimps, madams and the occasional piano player then politics is easier to understand.
Liberals think conservatives are evil (although they dispute the existence of evil everywhere else). Conservatives think liberals are stupid.
