Will you feel bad if the vast majority of people in your country don't share your political views?

[maybetrollingmaybenot]

So the recent interview of Kanye West with Alex Jones got me thinking. For the record I think Hitler was very evil and ultimately harm to humanity so I'm not saying "Kanye was right, I feel bad for him since I also like Hitler" but in my country the political division is something like: 70% or so of the population support the EU and neoliberalism, adopting the euro and so on while the other 29% are stuck somewhere in 1980s right with Russia and the USSR. Now if you're like myself who doesn't want the eu yet hates Putin's Russia even more the feeling is like being Kanye West wearing a mask or whatever that was on Alex Jones. And I just felt that on twitter, it's easy to laugh at other countries and then you close twitter -> problem solved. But what if you live in a country and you can't escape it, it's like being locked in a nutthouse.

 

[Finished]

I feel that way about the US. I'm a conservative. That used to make me a republican. But, now it makes me a radical independant. It seems all the politicians want to do is spend more and more money that we don't have and will never have. They just use whatever is currently in the headlines. The next thing will be we need to spend $trillions to completely rebuild Cuba or something. Or, we need to build a 40' tall clear see through costal barrier wall around most of the US with holes for marine life to pass through. That why I stopped voting. I honestly can't vote for either side any more. But, so much hidden, dirty money is giving to both parties that an independant has zero change in winning.

 

[NoxApex(N/A)]

Not really.
I'm a musician, so there's nowhere in the world you can make a living wage as a live performing instrumentalist.
My time on this planet was 300+ years ago.
When you need your pipes fixed, you call a plumber, when you've got car problems you take it to an auto-mechanic.
But because the Liberal Arts (music, writing, sculpting, painting, drawing, etc.) don't really have a designated professional go-to since art is subjective, those fields don't work by traditional standard matters. Which is how you can have highly skilled instrumentalists performing, and the only people in the room that actually understand its technicalities are other musicians as it's musicians that study music, not the larger majority of people in the world.
300+ years ago, the piano was to the home what the television is now. For a perspective difference.
Hence, why I'm more Left than I am Right politically, but I'm also moreover politically resigned.
It doesn't matter what job I have, every job will only ever be "just a job" to me.
BUT, I've learned to appreciate that over time, because it's a Hell of a lot easier to manage something without emotional entanglement than it is with emotional entanglement.

 

[TropicalStarfish]

The vast majority of people haven't shared my political views since the dawn of me having political views. I'm pretty used to it by now.

 

[user 139760]

Well, long story short; if I was into politics, Canada would be a very different place lol. Ideally better, I don't know if it actually WOULD be, or worse, but very different

 

[SquareBin]

Honestly, I have no idea what the majority thinks in my country... I stopped TV at 16yo and the news at 18-19yo, which makes for a very uninformed SquareBin :')

I want to stop caring about politics, so I decided to stop voting too, like @Finished

Just focussing on life alone is so hard already...

I'd say I'm culturally conservativ-ish, and economically socialist-ish

 

[user 190541]

I'd say I'm culturally conservativ-ish, and economically socialist-ish

Unironically based and redpilled.

 

[TheSkaFish]

I feel bad that the vast majority of the country doesn't seem to share my political views (using science and technology to actually improve the way we live, not just use it to maintain the status quo).

Instead we seem to keep doubling down on what already hasn't been working, for a while, yet if you question capitalism, you're treated like a crazy person. Capitalism used to work for the people. But then we removed the safeguards from it, and now it just works for itself, or the people work for it instead.

It's really frustrating to me how tech is being pushed as the answer, yet while we've had more tech, it's not really fundamentally changing the way we live - at least not improving it for the regular person.
It's not resulting in shorter work-hours and greater quality of life. If anything it's the opposite.
More tech won't help, if we don't fix the capitalism problem, which we seem determined to NOT fix.
We've had more tech, yet capitalism has gotten worse.
So I don't see how even more tech, will fix the problem that it not only didn't fix before, but got worse, even though tech got better.

It feels like we're regressing into a dark age because of it, and this makes it hard for me to be optimistic or excited for the future.

 

[Cherubino]

I think unified political structures like EU makes it easier to live in a nation you feel most alike ... If I had the proper age and not being born one generation too early I'd have fulfill my dream to live among the people of Northern Europe

 

[user 190541]

It's really frustrating to me how tech is being pushed as the answer, yet while we've had more tech, it's not really fundamentally changing the way we live - at least not improving it for the regular person. It's not resulting in shorter work-hours and greater quality of life. If anything it's the opposite.
More tech won't help, if we don't fix the capitalism problem, which we seem determined to NOT fix.
We've had more tech, yet capitalism has gotten worse.
So I don't see how even more tech, will fix the problem that it not only didn't fix before, but got worse, even though tech got better.

Actually, people who are in charge of things know full well that the development of technology leads to a progressive undermining of our social order. That's why people like Musk have called for a halt to AI research, which obviously won't happen. The process of technological improvement is a necessity for capitalism, it's crystalized in economic law, and it's derived from the basic fact of competition and the need for reproducing capital. What's good about the process of technological develpment as it's happening is that, in further accentuating capitalism's contradictions, it will help to bring about its own destitution. The development of technology is, for that reason, a progressive element within capitalism.

 

[Cherubino]

Actually, people who are in charge of things know full well that the development of technology leads to a progressive undermining of our social order. That's why people like Musk have called for a halt to AI research, which obviously won't happen. The process of technological improvement is a necessity for capitalism, it's crystalized in economic law, and it's derived from the basic fact of competition and the need for reproducing capital. What's good about the process of technological develpment as it's happening is that, in further accentuating capitalism's contradictions, it will help to bring about its own destitution. The development of technology is, for that reason, a progressive element within capitalism.

robots will fulfill Marx's dream of labor prevailing over capital thus man over nature

 

[user 162085]

Used to be... a marcher for Civil Rights, Against ALL WARS --- now?

I try to simply THINK FOR MYSELF and stay out of the DUMBING DOWN OF THE WORLD. People aren't thinking for themselves anymore... they're believing what the 20% want them to-- no. not I. I don't believe the mainstream media/internet etc.... AI is taking over.
ORIGINAL THOUGHT! -- think outside the box they've created! Listen to your gut! Be REAL. BE Original-- CREATIVE....sorry... went on.

 

[4No1]

If?
No I don't feel bad because of people's political view, I feel bad because of their behavior and things that happen because of their views.

In fact I guess, the vast majority people in my country(and may be in all my planet) doesn't have any real political views, maybe except repeating what TV tells them.

 

[yohannbiimu]

Most people I know don't have political views. They're basically mindless partisans who support anything that their party says is right, and are against what they say the other party is for. So, I'm pretty sure that the vast majority of people don't share my views because the vast majority of people in the US just parrot the people they listen to, rather than have any actual thoughts about what "the rule of law" is, and why the Bill of Rights amendments to the US Constitution are essential to our lives as free people.

I don't "feel bad" about it. It's just the way things are.

 

[Intrama]

I'm completely numb to it.