Electoral politics in the Empire almost feels like a cult. Hardly any of its proponents pause to consider that maybe abstention and protest votes are popular because the system is so horribly broken. They treat the process as sacred and antagonize everybody who refuses to fall in line.
An “apolitical” non-USian acquaintance of mine is reading Obama’s memoir of his time as president and is realizing that this “messiah-ification” of him is completely unfounded.
The whole thing of people calling themselves “apolitical” is so stupid, when every single aspect of life is in one way or the other influenced by the political system it exists under.
Electoral politics in the Empire almost feels like a cult. Hardly any of its proponents pause to consider that maybe abstention and protest votes are popular because the system is so horribly broken. They treat the process as sacred and antagonize everybody who refuses to fall in line.
They basically worship Kamala, Biden, and Obama especially
An “apolitical” non-USian acquaintance of mine is reading Obama’s memoir of his time as president and is realizing that this “messiah-ification” of him is completely unfounded.
The whole thing of people calling themselves “apolitical” is so stupid, when every single aspect of life is in one way or the other influenced by the political system it exists under.