Are you ever surprised and disappointed by friends' apparent lack of concern over politics

I used to. Now I envy them

My best friend is like this and it bothers the hell out of me on one hand and on the other I wish I didn’t care like him

He is still of the belief that “politics don’t affect me”. Even though he is an avid gun guy so it’s really mind blowing

No. It’s a toxic thing. I hope people can be engaged but understand when they aren’t.

To a degree, sure. That degree is pretty low though, and I wouldn't misconstrue carelessness with privacy, or a disinterest in political discussion.

I'm more pissed off at them, because those people are easily swayed to vote casually for whom the MSM dictates.

They're the target audience for really shitty campaign ads too.

Inexcusable. We need a citizenship (as in basic civics and governance) test for voting. And I'm dead fricking serious.

The ones who don't pay attention to politics don't bother me at all. The ones who follow mainstream talking points flabbergast me. The lack of critical thinking ability astonishes me daily.

We don’t care about politics, because, in the scheme of things it doesn’t really matter. There is supposed to be a balance of power and basically gridlock to keep anyone from screwing things up too badly. Whenever the s ystem fails, and someone really screws things up, he simply gets voted out of office and the next guy fixes it.

It is kinda like a spectators sport....we all pull for one team or the other, but at the end of the day, none of it really matters much.

More concerned about how many just follow a herd mentality.

I see it a lot with friends that work for big corporations and in with gay friends that I know.

They just spout off cliches instead of studying issues.