Internet help: I think I have an unhealthy obsession with politics. - Help.com

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Florie wrote:

Sans wrote:
Hey Cliff, do I have a match for you!

Florie, Cliff.
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Cliff, Florie.
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No way! I’m swearing off. I’m gonna go back to LIVING again. :)

Maybe I should try that. LOL

Dougie the Pisces wrote:
Hard to say really!
Are you staling politicians? Now that would be obsessive!

Maybe you should be in politics?

I thought about that a lot. However I know how your past can come back to bite you. So maybe that’s not such a good idea.

Barbyman wrote:
The more you can absorb the better in Conversations.Not only that, it makes you getting smarter .Being smarter gives you better opportunities.Better opportunities brings in the Bacon…

Your absolutely right. I love to talk politics. It also gives me an opportunity to sway people. I find interesting ways of debating my points.

Sans wrote:
I don’t worry about people who are obsessed with politics. It’s the ones who pay no attention to it at all that concern me, the ones who don’t care what sort of injustice or stupidity is passed into law. Those who are willfully unaware, combined with those at the political extremes who are “true believers” in their views as inerrant, are a more dangerous coalition than all of the crooked politicians combined.

I think I was scared into caring about politics. The fact that these people make, revise, an shape the laws we live by is a terrifying thing to me. People vote law makers in to office and leave them to their own devices with no oversight. I always tell people that we need to remember that the people hold the power. It’s just too easy to blame legislators. They get away with what we let them get away with.

As far as “true believers” and partisans; I believe that partisan politics is what’s ruining government. It has become an ongoing chess game. My party is guilty of it as well as the Republicans. Instead of finding what common ground they do have and not trying to kill each other on the issues they disagree on, they ignore their own convictions to undermine the other party. Trying to one up the other guy. The worst part is that the onlookers get caught up in the fight and meanwhile nothing is accomplished.