Is Being Apolitical a Luxury to You?

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Humble_Novice
09/19/2025
01:26 PM
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ZMythos
09/19/2025
01:34 PM
#2
I didn't understand the question at first and selected "no"

Being apolitical is certainly an outcome of personal privilege. If the status quo allows you to live comfortably, then you're less inclined to be active or aware of politics.
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NoxObscuras
09/19/2025
01:35 PM
#3
Yes it is a luxury now. Not in the past though. I'm a black man and when I was 18, I was apathetic about politics to the point of being apolitical. I was young and just didn't care. But I have still voted in every election that's happened since I turned 18
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cousinvini
09/19/2025
01:35 PM
#4
I honestly believe it's way more a matter of extreme apathy/ignorance rather than privilege. I see many "apolitical" poor folks who will be destroyed by Trump's policies and still refuse to care.
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wackyteen
09/19/2025
01:41 PM
#5
I should be a lot more apolitical, given my job.

Unfortunately the propaganda worked a little too fucking well so
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legendary_zell
09/19/2025
01:45 PM
#6
Lots of black people, poor people, LGBT people, women, immigrants, etc are apolitical. It's wrong, but it's not really exclusively because of luxury. It's because of apathy, ignorance, or a lack of political education and realizing that even if you opt out of trying to affect politics, it never stops affecting you.
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texanfan27
09/19/2025
01:47 PM
#7
ZMythos posted...
I didn't understand the question at first and selected "no"

Being apolitical is certainly an outcome of personal privilege. If the status quo allows you to live comfortably, then you're less inclined to be active or aware of politics.

i argue it could also be a product of living pay check to paycheck as well. You dont have time to waste on politics, even though it might help you.

I feel a lot of people sadly fall in that area

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PeteyParker
09/19/2025
01:50 PM
#9
I've never been apolitical necessarily but there was a point where I naively believed in "we're at our best when we work together" and would vote for people of both parties so that there would be checks and balances. This was on a local level only, I've never voted for a Republican for any federal positions even though I was and would still be if primaries didn't require party registration, an unaffiliated voter. I also don't live in a state that has been utterly destroyed by Republican policies so that probably had an effect on it.

Being apolitical is definitely a privilege, or at least ignorance as suggested above, if you're able to ignore politics and want to avoid talking about them.
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foreverzero212
09/19/2025
01:52 PM
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texanfan27 posted...
i argue it could also be a product of living pay check to paycheck as well. You dont have time to waste on politics, even though it might help you.

I feel a lot of people sadly fall in that area
Yeah this. Most apolitical people are normies that dont have time to do anything other than working multiple jobs to simply survive the day. The most political people are often hyper online with infinite free time which is certainly a luxury.

I think capital owners definitely enjoy that the masses are too busy to vote/organize in their own interests.
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wackyteen
09/19/2025
01:52 PM
#11
foreverzero212 posted...
Yeah this. Most apolitical people are normies that dont have time to do anything other than working multiple jobs to simply survive the day. The most political people are often hyper online with infinite free time which is certainly a luxury.

I think capital owners definitely enjoy that the masses are too busy to vote/organize in their own interests.

It's almost like that is by design
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GMAK2442
09/19/2025
01:54 PM
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Voidgolem
09/19/2025
02:08 PM
#13
I find being "apolitical" is just code phrasing for "please stop saying things that make me uncomfortable"

So I disagree: seeking comfort (beyond the necessities of life such as shelter/food/companionship/etc that are immutable and should be baseline for all) is growth-avoidant behavior. Be uncomfortable. Engage with those ideas and concepts that unsettle you. Explore *why* they unsettle you. That better equips you for the future.

All that being said, context also matters. A not-trivial portion of online peoples insist on burning their limited time and energy on making mountains out of molehills (or, more usually, mountains out of nothing at all). That's counterproductive.
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Compsognathus
09/19/2025
03:07 PM
#15
I had this conversation with my dad the other day. He is an upper-class, white man and a life long Republican. But he mentioned that he was effectively apolitical now because he hates Trump and hates what the Republican party is.

I explained that the only people who are apolitical are people with enough social and economic power to be insulated from the ramifications of political policy. Which he ultimately did agree with.

But even that conversation was stupid because he wasn't actually apolitical because he was just using the title to hide the fact that, despite him having some disagreements with their fiscal policies, he's effectively been a Democrat for nearly a decade. And he just hasn't come to terms with that.
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