Website is down - anyone have a mirror? My hot take just based on the title: politics has a return on investment like anything else. And engaging in politics,

Website is down - anyone have a mirror? My hot take just based on the title: politics has a return on investment like anything else. And engaging in politics, especially to the degree the general public has in the last several years, can be unhealthy in many ways. It can hurt your mental health, damage relationships, create emotionally charged echo chambers, etc. And being a political junkie can be problematic for society in other ways, like driving partisanship and viewing everything through extremist lenses (https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/20/opinion/polarization-politics-americans.html https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/20/opinion/polarization-poli...). So the positives of being politically engaged have to be weighed against the negatives and also against the time input it requires. For those whose lives aren’t drastically affected by election churn (which is a lot more people than you might think), I understand why they may choose to be disengaged or not vote.