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> The usual or normal stake in society is virtually no discussion about politics. Once every few years you pick a representative and then you can ignore politic

> The usual or normal stake in society is virtually no discussion about politics. Once every few years you pick a representative and then you can ignore politics because you can't change anything. You ought to be talking about that local sports team or that new tv show. This changed in recent years, I'm not really familiar with this ever happening before. I don't know at what point your depiction of "virtually no discussion about politics" ever "usual or normal". In my parents' lifetime we had political fights around interracial marriage, AIDS, and racial integration-- and that's just in the country I was born in. In the country they were born in, there was so much politics it became a massive civil conflict and they had to flee for their lives. In their grandparents' time there was already civil war and one of my grandparents was a POW, so I bet that was plenty of discussion too.

incomingpain 5y ago
>I don't know at what point your depiction of "virtually no discussion about politics" ever "usual or normal" The average person does not talk politics in normal conversation. The conversation ought to be how terrible the toronto maple laughs are doing. Or book of boba fett or new obiwan mini series. So many different subjects, politics rarely become a subject let alone dominate like it is doing today. >In my parents' lifetime we had political fights around interracial marriage, AIDS, and racial integration-- and that's just in the country I was born in. Sure you are always going to have hot topics. I'm curious, in normal conversation do you always talk about the political hot topics? You dont particularly care about $localsportsteam or whatever? >In the country they were born in, there was so much politics it became a massive civil conflict and they had to flee for their lives. Oh yes, that's precisely what's coming. Kind of the point I was alluding to. > In their grandparents' time there was already civil war and one of my grandparents was a POW, so I bet that was plenty of discussion too. Totally agree. I think we are in agreement here. Obviously I didn't spell it out to this extent.
- PuppyTailWags 5y ago
  > I'm curious, in normal conversation do you always talk about the political hot topics? Actually yeah, I keep track of my parents' immigration process, which is a political hot topic because they come from a non-european country and therefore their immigration status is always at risk here.

incomingpain 5y ago

>I don't know at what point your depiction of "virtually no discussion about politics" ever "usual or normal" The average person does not talk politics in normal conversation. The conversation ought to be how terrible the toronto maple laughs are doing. Or book of boba fett or new obiwan mini series. So many different subjects, politics rarely become a subject let alone dominate like it is doing today. >In my parents' lifetime we had political fights around interracial marriage, AIDS, and racial integration-- and that's just in the country I was born in. Sure you are always going to have hot topics. I'm curious, in normal conversation do you always talk about the political hot topics? You dont particularly care about $localsportsteam or whatever? >In the country they were born in, there was so much politics it became a massive civil conflict and they had to flee for their lives. Oh yes, that's precisely what's coming. Kind of the point I was alluding to. > In their grandparents' time there was already civil war and one of my grandparents was a POW, so I bet that was plenty of discussion too. Totally agree. I think we are in agreement here. Obviously I didn't spell it out to this extent.

PuppyTailWags 5y ago
> I'm curious, in normal conversation do you always talk about the political hot topics? Actually yeah, I keep track of my parents' immigration process, which is a political hot topic because they come from a non-european country and therefore their immigration status is always at risk here.