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Found the "should" statement at the end. I think more political takes should have a "should" statement. Maybe up top, even. > All of this should scare you a bi

Found the "should" statement at the end. I think more political takes should have a "should" statement. Maybe up top, even. > All of this should scare you a bit. I don't think the world benefits much from me being scared or worried about world war. I have to tactically vote Democrat either way because the Republican party is off their rockers and maybe has been since before I was even born. Beyond that, I don't think I have much influence over global politics - I'm pretty busy with my own life. I suppose I could change my own actions - Get some PV panels and batteries and a plug-in hybrid in case war changes the economics of energy and fuel production. Or simply because I already wanted those things for fun. More Americans should vote Democrat with me.

JumpCrisscross 3y ago
> don't think the world benefits much from me being scared or worried about world war It's more the civic disengagement. Since the Iraq War, most electeds' call sheets say nothing about foreign policy. Voters don't call in on it, which means they don't vote in primaries based on it, which means it's a delegated issue. I haven't seen detailed study on voters' obsessions pre world wars, but at least studying the media, the headlines from the preceding eras are largely obsessed with domestic issues, with foreign wars almost treated as a sideshow.