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When was this? Childhood of every era? 'Cause I'll tell you what, there's not a single generation that once they hit a point of being able to grasp what the hell is gong on it's downhill from there. I never gave a fuck about politics until I was in maybe 7th grade, after we did a report on republicans and democrats. I was introduced to politics around 9/11 and it still bothers me. I wish I had never known or was introduced to politics, ever. I wish they would ask people if they want to learn about it or hear about it. I wish people didn't indoctrinate people to believe in and/or care about such foolishness.
The only way you will never think of it, is if you were never introduced to it.
That's how my grandma would've said it if she was still alive: "It's all such foolishness."
It wasn't nearly as bad with Obama and Biden (unless you count still hearing about Trump every fucking day). Even Bush, while shitty, it wasn't like "What horrible thing am I going to read about today?" as soon as I woke up every morning.
That's seeming like a media problem. If Trump is being overplayed in the media more than former presidents than wouldn't it be safe to assume that's a form of like psychological warfare to keep people always on edge about, "the next move" or some other stupid shit?
Probably a little of both, I don't recall ever hearing about Obama staying up all night shit posting on twitter. He didn't offer as much content as Trump.
I certainly don't remember reading about Obama openly embezzling tax payer money while going off on rants blaming Bush for all his constant fuck ups
This!!!! What fucking high profile figure posts on Twitter for hours every day! Or even at all!!!!
Obama embraced twitter, but not on 3am pill-fueled rants
I want a president who has no social media and is so busy working for us they don't have time to complain about the previous administration
Back in the 1970s until mid 1980s most people would only talk about the president when something huge happened or it was election time
But that's not to say that civics and the voting process shouldn't still be taught, I mean it's important to know your rights, it's good to stay informed even if you never vote.
You should still know what's going on even if you don't care about voting. You don't need to know who the fuck for example Pete Hegseth is but it's good to know what the president is doing and the agendas for local political matters.
It's also a choice, I know a lot of people say if you don't vote you're not for democracy, you're for republican but that's a cop out. That's sore lose we lost a vote talking and that goes for the republicans as well, that if one doesn't vote for them it's a travesty and a loss for the nation and it's like no one is that special and your votes seriously do not matter when it comes to them being counted by the electoral college process.
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