I agree, it's definitely better for your personal well-being to just focus on your own life and just tuning out all the news and political bullshit, but by doing that you allow people who will spend all their energy on politics to have their way. A silent, passive majority will lose to a vocal, active minority. I'm not advocating for people to be any sort of way just saying even if you think you're being apolitical you're taking yourself out of the game and allowing others to run it which is a political decision in a way. If it matters I don't vote.
I
do agree with that, but I also see it as a war of attrition. If your enemies are all scattered doing their own thing like a herd of cats it requires an immense amount of mental effort and resources to lock them up, legislate them into oblivion, or kill them, especially if what your enemy is engaged in is beneficial to them long term. We've seen how well the US military fairs against an outgunned (but still armed) group of people that's sick of their bullshit. It's way more costly for the US than it was for Afghanistan to go to war, and that was a shithole country America had casus belli to invade. The Jan 6 prosecutions have earned a ton of ire from roughly half the nation, even though all the retards from Jan 6 walked into an optics trap, and now dissidents are aware of fed honeypots and perhaps even more people became dissidents after the prosecutions. Avoiding the government or going around their back requires a little caution and moderate amounts of coordination, while the system that abuses its people is insolvent. It's a great beast which is bleeding to death and every heaving movement it takes causes more blood to gush forth. It's also gotten fat and out of shape because for the past 50 years or so people have been lining up to be devoured by it to provide it nourishment. Now people realize more than ever the beast isn't actually helping you, it's just eating you, so it's a big game of catch-me-if-you-can until it bleeds out.
I still vote, if only because it makes it that much harder for them to fake elections, and for a small amount of effort; meanwhile, they have to pay people to go out and fake ballots and not get caught too openly. It's part of that bleeding the beast mentality by making it overexert itself.
I'm more irritated by Sean with every episode. He is like a lot of self-described apolitical people I've seen where they consider themselves above-it-all, but are still unknowingly captured by politics. This quote from a detestable person comes to mind:
“Practical men, who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influences, are usually slaves of some defunct economist”
I actually stopped watching The Dick Show primarily because I couldn't stand Sean's sheepish baaaing every time Dick said something remotely controversial. He takes the NPC line
every time and it's rarely an engaging counterpoint, just him calling Dick's sources into question or citing establishment data with financial ties to the corrupt entities Dick is complaining about in the rant Sean is torpedoing with his constant wet-blanket behavior. I really get the impression Sean feels compelled to pipe up because he lives in LA and if he doesn't say
something his LA-degen "friends" will literally nail him to a cross and crucify him for his sin of omission by not confronting Dick's "disinformation." If you're going to undermine a rant, at least have the fucking decency to have a nuanced opinion instead of just vomiting DNC talking points.