What unique thing bothers you about politics in general?

Submitted ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨flamiera@kbin.melroy.org⁩ to ⁨[deleted]⁩

Mine has to be the kind of laws that get passed. Where they are titled in such tongue-in-cheek fashions that just slaps you in the face in a metaphorical way. Like how laws such as the Patriot Act and Freedom Act got to be passed the way they are. They sound like they're to uphold the values of what the USA should be about.

However, you take a closer look into the wording and intent of the laws themselves, they are anything but against what those values should be about. We see this all of the time when bills get drafted and they come up with all of these similar-sounding names to pass them with. And there are still people out there who probably believe that there is good intent just by the name alone.

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Jesusaurus@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Omnibus bills. Oh you want this one thing? Well we can only do that if we do these other 20 things at the same time.

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- DomeGuy@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  This is a consequence of America wanting to pretend that the rest of the government has to be funded in accordance with the constitutional guard against a standing army.
  
  The only thing that Congress does that has a constituonal time limit is fund the army.
  
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Redacted@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Fascists, mostly.

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defaultusername@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Ultra wealthy people existing.

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it_depends_man@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Not sure about “unique”… but it bothers me how bad lots of people are with their documents and tools. In my country we have transparency laws for financing and it’s going to say like [xyz department] - 15 million. And I have no idea what that department does. No website, no documents, the projects they do are not public, etc… How am I supposed to decide if I am happy with what they do?

And how lenient some institutions are when something that needs to deliver proof of something doesn’t actually deliver that proof.

The assumption of innocence is great when it comes to individual people need to defend themselves against injustice. It’s awful for fighting systematic problems that stare you right in the face, but as long as you don’t have proof of intention, it’s just “oopsie woopsie”.

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hoshikarakitaridia@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
To me it’s the fighting. I know the intolerance paradox well, but the extreme polarization keeps sizzling up in meaningless ideological fights. If politics was boring again and we’d look at what laws do and whether we want them, we’d all be more productive.

I do not care for things that suck, I only care when can also change them. And this I have learned to withdraw from the things I can’t change. I would do a lot if my life had an impact on Gaza, Ukraine or anything else, but until I get there, I need to remember that I also need to keep myself happy and engaged. I learn things and make things, and when I can vote I’ll vote again, and when there’s a big protest I’ll join. This way I escape depression and retain my will to live.

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- flamiera@kbin.melroy.org ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  There's too much of that going on.
  
  It isn't because we don't care about Taiwan, Ukraine, Gaza, Palestine, Hong Kong .etc when we say we can't do much for them. It is because we physically can't, because we're not in positions of power that would help make that change. All we are, are just voices and there is only so much voices could do and those voices ended up getting silenced because of people in positions of power.
  
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edgemaster72@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
The people who least deserve power most desire it, and vice versa

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Unquote0270@programming.dev ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
The large portion of people are stupid and ignorant, which means that democracy is inherently flawed because they can be manipulated so easily.

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southsamurai@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Human stupidty and arrogance.

Even when I share the purported beliefs of someone, the vast majority of people are so fucking smug and insistent on being right, that discussing politics ain’t likely with me.

Then, you run into the fact that people tend to treat it like an identity and just mouth what they think they’re supposed to believe without ever actually thinking about it. It isn’t even just the people that are raised in one party/bloc/whatever and stick with it. Even the ones that change allegiance tend to treat it as some kind of granfaloon, but not the harmless kind. Shit, that’s that case with unaffiliated people too, it isn’t limited to party members.

Like, yeah, we all think we’re right, but when that turns into smug self aggrandizement, fuck that.

That’s the shit that bothers me about politics, that people can’t just fucking chill and vote their conscience, they gotta be right, and feel superior about it.

That may not seem to be the kind of thing you’re asking about, but it’s one of the sessions those abysmal laws happen.

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