Like 3 weekends
ago some people I know had a beachfront barbecue, and I ended up talking
politics with a young (white) campus liberal who won’t vote since it’s a personal
purity thing for him if he ever voted for a party who didn't go far enough politically.
His whole thing
was that no party was good enough: he’d say both parties are the same, and then
when I’d point out clear differences why Democrats are better, he’d then bring
up shit like drones.
An (Italian) grad
student friend was there, and he later brought up that that attitude annoys him
to no end, since he thinks you have to pick a party and participate in
politics.
He also said
that Italians call it “qualunquismo”, which translates to “whateverism”, and,
as he said, it’s when people make sweeping generalizations and wipe out all political differences between things and think themselves smart for doing it.
He also also
said that that happens a lot more in Italy than the U.S., and termed it “a social
phenomenon”.
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