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We Can’t Avoid Politics Just Because It’s Distasteful
Power acts on you whether or not you act on it.
Please read this if you think politics is ‘gross’ and you’d rather have nothing to do with it.
It’s understandable to feel that way. The smooth-talking hypocrisy, simplified soundbites, hurling of insults — we’d prefer to avoid that in our lives.
Each new scandal hidden behind a wholesome facade further erodes our trust.
And how many times have we gotten our hopes up that improvement was on the way, only to have them dashed by the most ridiculous of stumbling blocks? <Cough. Manchin. Cough.>
The thing is, governments exist. They interact with you and you interact with them in a million ways. They pass laws and impose punishments that affect your behavior. They shape the rules that determine how corporations treat you. And how other individuals treat you.
You are interacting with the government whether you want to or not. The question is if you want the power to flow in only one direction — it acting on you.
Power has been distributed in a variety of ways.
Through the ages, government has taken different forms. Pre-agrarian tribes formed self-organized structures with…
