On a scale of 1 to 10, with 1 being “little influence on my life” and ten being “politics is extremely important to me.”, how personally do you handle political issues?
Impossible to give a single answer, sorry.
Some issues affect me directly, like health insurance.
Other issues, like the kerfuffle about gender, just as one example, do not.
Of course I care about LGBTQ people being treated like crap when they don't deserve it.
But the fact is, I don't wig out if a trans or other similar type person winds up in a public restroom...they have to do all the same things I have to do and as long as they behave in a civilized and courteous manner, it's just not a problem to me.
But I doubt I'd do very much marching and protesting about it.
If I ran across a person treating one of them badly over it, I'd do my best to set that person straight.
That's about the extent of it.
I'll never memorize all the cis-this, cis-that, whatever.
The Minneapolis cop thing affects me directly because I spent the formative years of my youth there and I both observed AND experienced the rogue behavior and brutality of the Third Precinct personally, so of course that issue is something I take personally.
The most interesting part about that incident is that it has exposed the true core and source of the issue and it's not the cops as much as it is the UNIONS they belong to. Police unions are a bizarre outlier in the world of organized labor, and it appears that most of them are corrupt to the core, but not in the way a labor union normally experiences corruption.
Police union corruption is moral and civil corruption more than financial.
I don't think it's a practical question.
You have to ask people WHICH political ISSUES they take personally, not
"How personally do you take political issues"
That kind of question implies that people are one-dimensional.
Really, it's binary thinking.