I find when I go into an exclusively right wing space I start to think "oh, I must be left wing" and when I go I to an exclusively left wing space I start to think "oh, I must be right wing"
Honestly, I would prefer not to throw in with either one entirely because you end up getting a whole bunch of weird baggage. It's like, if you agree that the government should really be balancing budgets then you also have to agree that children should be forced to pray to a religion they don't necessarily follow in schools. On the flip side, if you agree that we should be doing more to help the poor, you also have to believe that we should be trying to destroy the family. I'm sure that that works out very well for certain people who don't really want to have to think a whole lot about their political ideology, but I actually do want to think about my political ideology. I want to make decisions about what I support on the case by case basis and sometimes the things that I'm going to support are not going to be on the same "side".
So there's a fallacy out there saying that because you don't support one side or the other you don't have any strong opinions about anything, I think that's completely wrong. Just because you aren't walking in lockstep with a certain complete ideology that someone else developed does not mean that you don't have your own ideology consisting of strong opinions.
The thing is, if you look at the world and make your own decisions, you make a very poor pawn. Nuance and discussion amongst many people may come up with very good ideas, but it doesn't build an army -- and the powers that be want an army.
Honestly, I would prefer not to throw in with either one entirely because you end up getting a whole bunch of weird baggage. It's like, if you agree that the government should really be balancing budgets then you also have to agree that children should be forced to pray to a religion they don't necessarily follow in schools. On the flip side, if you agree that we should be doing more to help the poor, you also have to believe that we should be trying to destroy the family. I'm sure that that works out very well for certain people who don't really want to have to think a whole lot about their political ideology, but I actually do want to think about my political ideology. I want to make decisions about what I support on the case by case basis and sometimes the things that I'm going to support are not going to be on the same "side".
So there's a fallacy out there saying that because you don't support one side or the other you don't have any strong opinions about anything, I think that's completely wrong. Just because you aren't walking in lockstep with a certain complete ideology that someone else developed does not mean that you don't have your own ideology consisting of strong opinions.
The thing is, if you look at the world and make your own decisions, you make a very poor pawn. Nuance and discussion amongst many people may come up with very good ideas, but it doesn't build an army -- and the powers that be want an army.
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