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CMV: People don't understand politics and political discourse & it's our faults

This is more of a dump of thoughts less then a coherent argument. 

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From the way i see current involvment in politics, I don't think people really understand politics. The current political discourse boils down to childish name calling and witch hunts that are ultimatly counter productive to the conversations that should be have. People are gravitating towards name calling to derail any conversation (Far right, communist etc) and this shows that very few people are politically literate enough actually partake in any real conversation and people don't have the attention span to take the time to understand politics and the complexities of it.  I also think that mob mentality is drowning out any real contributions too which might have infleunced my cynicism around this but i don't know if that makes it better or worse. 

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I think the current state of politics is our fault because we've moved away from taking time and thought to understand something rather we jump on bandwagons lead by people that benifit from ignorance. I don't reasonably believe that the majority of people can contribute to the conversation properly, lack of time and interest contributes to this, but have been forced into believing they have to and therefore taking stupid & ill informed positions. I think the culture created around feeling duty to be a part of something bigger plays a huge and detromental part in the state of current discourse. 

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I strongly believe in democracy and the importance of giving people a voice, but I believe that the voices being heard are hurting the conversation

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sorry if this didn't make sense.
gpt
Perhaps it's you who doesn't understand politics. 

A lot of people view politics as "Civil Discourse". But a lot of the time, this is inaccurate. Politics is not some abstract debate about hypothetical policies. It's about real policies that people want to actually implement and enforce. These policies can drastically affect people's lives. Which policies we have in place can literally determine who lives and who dies. 

Given that, doesn't it make a lot of sense that people are angry and shouting about it?