That's when you point out that they care a lot about politics. Or I dunno, on second thought maybe don't make the right more politically aware than they already are.

Yeah, but that's Kentucky...

Which is an idiotic part of an idiotic country

It's really a case of stupid^2

Even in those circumstances, I wouldn't say that. The very concept of "not caring" about politics is so cringe that I wouldn't be caught dead endorsing it.

I used to think that, but I have experienced a lot of it recently where they're not actually conservative bigots, they're just dumb

To the stupid, politics is scary and overwhelming, because they live in a small world of simple answers to complex problems

Often, this leads to conservative bigotry because social media etc. offers those simple answers

I live somewhere that is small, quiet, simple and beautiful

I have had to reassess my thoughts.

Yes: "I'm not political" does come from those who have privilege, but unlike 'Murica, when they have it explained how they benefit from others suffering, the usual response is (dare I say it...) something of an awakening

Yeah, that's a popular internetism lately, but it doesn't make it true.

There are plenty of people who don't want to talk about politics and would be likely to use that initial "I don't do politics" to try to brush a conversation about it aside who are trying to not discuss politics because they'd rather not die from an aneurysm at the massive surge in blood pressure they get if they start thinking about the mountain of recent bullshit and awful, or are simply trying to not dwell on it all to keep from killing themselves.

When you have no idea why someone doesn't want to discuss politics jumping right to accusing them of being a racist, transphobic, fascism loving, low education, child rape endorsing, evil piece of shit is completely unhinged.

There are all sorts of mental and medical conditions that could cause someone to be unable to handle those discussions with as fucked as things have gotten lately. You would of course hate anyone who seemed to be discriminating against those people, because ableism is bad, but instead of giving all humans grace as you know those issues exist you'd prefer to assume no one you're interacting with has them and treat them like shit until you're informed?

Maybe it would be better to just not treat other human being like shit? Or at the least not until you actually know their circumstances and situation and the truth of the matter instead of making a blind guess because of an internet meme.

Revolution in all its forms gives birth to one of the two systems above.

So you want to stick with what we have now ??

I agree and disagree with so much there and love how we come out with the sane, depressingly correct answer

Pretty much my opinion, far left throwing their crazy ideas at, I’ll hard pass usually, sometimes I’ll take the bait

"I don't do politics"

So you don't buy groceries? Gas? Pay taxes? Own or want to own a home? Have a job? Have insurance?

Dang, if only caring about the oppression of others allowed you to team up to help each other. However, there's no way to help yourself; life will always fuck you this way and it's impossible for solidarity to change that /s

You have to be dumb to not see that some things will benefit yourself as well as others, or, that government & corpos make life worse for others as much as for you.

So I agree with OOP, if you see your income dwindle from just about enough to always slightly less than enough, you cannot afford to ignore politics.

And I mean just having an opinion & acting accordingly, not using already tight resources for ... activism? ... tbf I dunno what exactly they meant with "do politics".

The ability to be willfully ignorant is itself a privilege. Being a dog of the Imperialist military, to take up the gun in service of imperial oppression abroad in exchange for financial stability or social opportunity, is itself a privileged position.