Is anyone tired of politics? Like...just bury your head in the sand and just busy yourself with distractions? I'm kinda getting to that point. Pessimistic that anything positive will come out of either side, so it's ultimately futile to care about the ebbs and flows of it.
I've always kinda had this fatalistic POV but debating/arguing/trolling has been entertaining enough at times that I've participated in it merely for the process/experience. Even that is becoming boring. I'm not sure why...combination of the mundaneness of it and those with opposing views don't bother to mount any real counterpoints > 90% of the time.
Perhaps. I've noticed my postings here are way down. I do comment, post on anything I see that might effect elections. But policy, issues, for the most part these days I refuse to comment on any of them. Mainly because I see it a total waste. In today's modern political era of polarization, the great divide, the super, mega, ultra-high partisanship I already know Democrats and Liberals will automatically oppose anything Republican and conservative, vice versa is true also. Republicans and conservative automatically opposing anything Democratic or liberal with no thought to the merits of the proposal. just who proposed it.
Now forecasting elections, knowing how an election is shaping up, one has hard numbers to go by there. Those numbers will change over time, they're dynamic, they may indicate one thing today, another tomorrow, but they're hard numbers. Not opinions, not wants of partisan folks, but cold hard numbers. I've also noticed it's getting harder and harder, rarer if you will to have an interesting, intelligent conversation about issues, about elected officials, candidates, etc. without the name calling and personal attacks on them.
So yes, in a way I've tied of politics. At least a good portion of politics. But politics, elections, still interest me. Not that I care who wins and who loses, I think both major parties and all their candidates are totally useless. that both major parties put their party first and foremost and have forgotten about America as a whole, neither gives a coyote's howl about the country, the whole country, just their base. my bottom line, get elections right, predict the correct winners and losers. All this other stuff, issues, policy, I don't gives an owl's hoot about them anymore. Each party is trying to use the power of government to force their agenda, political views, philosophy, ideology on all the rest of us. It makes no difference to me which party is doing that. I just want my forecasts to be correct, to heck with all the other stuff. I plain don't care anymore.
