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Attitudes Toward Politics, in General
Topic Started: Jun 2 2012, 09:37 PM (604 Views)
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Do you consider your attitudes towards politics to be:

-Strongly opinionated
-Mildly opinionated
-Apathetic
-Anti-political

And what about the attitudes of others (family, friends, etc.)?

Have you noticed a change lately in these attitudes, either for yourself or those around you?

(I was going to make a poll but too many questions.)

Here are my answers:

I consider myself to be strongly opinionated, and have noticed the attitudes of quite a few people to be surprisingly less opinionated than they used to be (namely acquaintances who, in the past, were very "conservative" who now seem to be fairly anti-political).

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Reverie
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Hmm.....all of the above, I think. :lol:

I feel anti-political in the sense that politicians always seem to be at war with one another, and seem to care more about their agenda winning than the common good. I am also very disappointed with the way it appears the government has mismanaged money and investments. I am very uncomfortable with religion-driven agendas.

I am very opinionated in wanting the government to stay out of certain things, and focus on others, and mildly opinionated in the way that I am open to change some of my views, and acknowledge that my ideology does not work for everyone.

Currently, I generally feel disenchanted. For example, they recently closed my local fire station without warning due to budget issues, and are now trying to pass something to prevent others from closing. It might be selfish, but I would care a lot more if I had a say in saving my own fire station, but apparently mine was not a concern. The paramedics from our fire station are the first responders for medical emergencies, so we now have a 15 minute or more delay in response instead of having a station right around the corner.
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Hmmm, I would say that I am fairly strongly opinionated. For instance in Ireland we have a single transferable vote proportional representation system (where if a candidate has already been elected by quota, a person's vote is transferred to another candidate, and unless one has indicated preference for where a vote is to be transferred to, one cannot determine which candidate gets the transfer) and I make sure to learn as much as I can about the politics of all candidates so that I can put a preference order on everyone on the ballot paper to ensure my vote doesn't go to someone whose policy I disagree with). I'd say I'm not unusual among my family and friends, strong opinions definitely abound, although whether those opinions are strongly political or strongly apolitical varies.

Certainly at the moment I am feeling quite disenchanted with politics in general, but that doesn't alter my strong opinions.
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I've always been politically passionate and strongly-opinionated. Unfortunately, the heinous current state of affairs has me close to wanting to ignore it as much as possible. I have been having a week of panic attacks triggered by PTSD and pretty much everything that comes out of the GOP.

Now my attitude toward politics is fear. Fear and panic. And a sour, vomitty sensation in the bit of my stomach. :worried:
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Heathen, same here. I admit there's a place in the back of my mind that's planning for a Big Move Away if this shit keeps flying down.
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Yeah, if there were anywhere away that would be willing to provide haven/refuge to a middle-aged, losing-her-eyesight, jobless & skill-less potential immigrant, I'd be doing the exact same thing.
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OMG. If the GOP wins in November, we have to move. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/08/28/platform-abortion_n_1837571.html?ncid=edlinkusaolp00000009
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With a policy THAT extreme, can they even win? :yikes:

Yeah, I'd have to run away, if that became law. Fuck no, nuh-uh, never. http://amandaching.wordpress.com/2012/02/20/67/ Not going to live there. NOT going to raise a daughter there.
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Take a deep breath.

Just because that's their plank doesn't mean they will be able to make those things happen even if they did win. Otherwise, when the Dems won in 2008, the US really would have changed -- and not just in the minds of all those loons on FOX news.

Those of us who don't like where our country is headed today have to stand up and fight for the women coming after us just like the women who came before us fought for us! Give what you can -- time or money -- to a candidate or a cause that you believe in.
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I hear you, W2, but the laws that have already passed scared the bejebus out of me. And you know it's only a matter of time before that shit starts passing 'round these parts.

Saw this clip this morning. Yep.

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Aug 28 2012, 10:02 PM
With a policy THAT extreme, can they even win? :yikes:
I am so relieved to find that it turns out that they couldn't win with a policy that extreme.

This has been the worst (and most post traumatic stress inducing, rape-trauma-triggering) election I can recollect in my entire life. I am so relieved it is OVER!
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Me too. I'm so tired of the extremes, too. I watched Rachel Maddow last night and she was just wonderful:

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he really did win, and he really was born in Hawaii,
and he really is legitimately President of the United States, again!
and the Bureau of Labor Statistics did not make up fake unemployment rate last month,
and the Congressional Research Service really can find NO evidence that cutting taxes on rich people grows the economy,
and the polls were not skewed to over-sample Democrats,
and Nate Silver was not making up fake projections to make conservatives feel bad, Nate Silver was doing Math!
and Climate Change is real,
and rape really does cause pregnancy sometimes,
and Evolution is a thing!
and Benghazi was an attack on us, it was not a scandal by us,
and nobody is taking away anyone's guns,
and Taxes have not gone up,
and the Deficit is dropping, actually,
and Saddam Hussein did not have Weapons of Mass Destruction,
and the Moon Landing was real,
and FEMA is not building concentration camps,
and UN election observers are not taking over Texas,
and moderate reforms of the regulations on the Insurance Industry, the Financial Industries in this country are NOT the same thing as Communism



I hope everyone can just move the hell on and get back to working on problems instead of being insane and trying to jerk 1950 back into the picture.
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:D I actually pinned a youtube segment of her saying all that stuff up on one my boards on Pinterest.

There was a terrific article on Truth-out.org about the election outcome. Link is here

This part especially will not get out of my head:
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Oh, P.S., something like two billion dollars got spent seeing this jangled carnival to a conclusion, a fact you should retain and redeploy the next time you hear some austerity-loving benefit-slashing politician try to tell you America is too broke to take care of its own. For the record, the tab for Tuesday night ran nine zeroes to the left of the decimal, which tells you everything you need to know about where we've set our priorities.

That is the country right now, and all the bunting and balloons in the wide world can't pretty it up.

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I wish they would put a serious cap on campaign funds, get rid of PACs altogether (ouch, but yeah), and require news organizations to spend equal time on candidates, if at all possible.

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