I'd say "Doomer" is the perfect term to describe the assholes who think "Politics don't affect me personally, so why should I even consider?" or "Both sides are crap, choosing is just chickening out".

You know the kind of pessimistic irascible assholes you find on Twitter or 4Chan or even Kiwi Farms who doesn't care what you want to express online.

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[–] 7 points 18 hours ago* (2 children)

Well you may wish to dismiss them, but its not unreasonable position for someone to take. Some people may genuinely believe the woke / anti woke argument is an irrelevance and distracting from more important issues. In fact that nay be the whole point - a distraction from the rest of the mess.

Similarly in the US, saying both sides are crap and disengaging reflects the state of the US political system. Two parties have corrupted the system in their favour for decades. Its a nonsense to believe politics fits neatly into one camp or the other. And its a nonsense to say everyone must choose one or the other or they're in the wrong.

When your only option in an election is voting for whichever party is the lesser evil, its no longer a democracy. And its unsurprising that people dont want to waste time talking about the non-choice.

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    I think in a lot of ways it's the right that has made identity political and it works for them really really well especially in a binary political system. The right wing only has to be 1 thing to 1 group of people, while there are 100s of left wings and intersections.

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