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Originally Posted by marketsmart
i have completely given up on US politics..
its all smoke and mirrors.. the govt pretends it's hard at work making things better for the people while they funnel taxpayer money into corporations bank accounts..
i hope someday the people wake up and we have a much needed revolution...
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Sadly I feel the same way. I've been interested in news and politics since I was a kid, I had a subscription to the Wall Street Journal in 8th grade..lol. But things are so ass backwards right now with the public debate that it's nearly impossible to be engaged anymore in a meaningful way.
This is just a theory, but I think a big issue is that people who in the past only had a passing interest in complex political issues now try to be very involved in those issues despite not being savvy enough to truly understand what is going on. So they get tricked very easily and they end up derailing the whole debate.
Passion is good, but passion with no knowledge is how you get exploited, and a huge number of Americans are being exploited.