Capitalists have all but entirely captured all of the politicians. Every single thing Politicians do today, is based around the idea of maximizing capital. That isn’t politics, it’s capitalism.
They use token shit like LGBTQ+ rights, women’s rights, First Nations rights etc as a scapegoat for actually doing anything meaningful.
Just because things don’t happen the way you want them to doesn’t mean it isnt politics.
Edit: this next part is only loosely realted to this discussion but… I recently had a discussion like this with a coworker. He had the idea that he was a-political and was just enjoying “watching the show” and then would spout political opinions that he didn’t recognize as such. For example, Ukraine got brought up and he said he didn’t care about xyz because [both sides-ism] and Ukraine probably did something to instigate it. Finally after that I decided to butt in every time he took a political stance and remind him that (for example) Ukraine not being entirely innocent IS in fact a political stance.
Everything is politics.
Except it isn’t, it’s capitalism.
Capitalists have all but entirely captured all of the politicians. Every single thing Politicians do today, is based around the idea of maximizing capital. That isn’t politics, it’s capitalism.
They use token shit like LGBTQ+ rights, women’s rights, First Nations rights etc as a scapegoat for actually doing anything meaningful.
Just because things don’t happen the way you want them to doesn’t mean it isnt politics.
Edit: this next part is only loosely realted to this discussion but… I recently had a discussion like this with a coworker. He had the idea that he was a-political and was just enjoying “watching the show” and then would spout political opinions that he didn’t recognize as such. For example, Ukraine got brought up and he said he didn’t care about xyz because [both sides-ism] and Ukraine probably did something to instigate it. Finally after that I decided to butt in every time he took a political stance and remind him that (for example) Ukraine not being entirely innocent IS in fact a political stance.