Mine has to be the kind of laws that get passed. Where they are titled in such tongue-in-cheek fashions that just slaps you in the face in a metaphorical way. Like how laws such as the Patriot Act and Freedom Act got to be passed the way they are. They sound like they’re to uphold the values of what the USA should be about.
However, you take a closer look into the wording and intent of the laws themselves, they are anything but against what those values should be about. We see this all of the time when bills get drafted and they come up with all of these similar-sounding names to pass them with. And there are still people out there who probably believe that there is good intent just by the name alone.
To me it’s the fighting. I know the intolerance paradox well, but the extreme polarization keeps sizzling up in meaningless ideological fights. If politics was boring again and we’d look at what laws do and whether we want them, we’d all be more productive.
I do not care for things that suck, I only care when can also change them. And thus I have learned to withdraw from the things I can’t change. I would do a lot if my life had an impact on Gaza, Ukraine or anything else, but until I get there, I need to remember that I also need to keep myself happy and engaged. I learn things and make things, and when I can vote I’ll vote again, and when there’s a big protest I’ll join. This way I escape depression and retain my will to live.
There’s too much of that going on.
It isn’t because we don’t care about Taiwan, Ukraine, Gaza, Palestine, Hong Kong .etc when we say we can’t do much for them. It is because we physically can’t, because we’re not in positions of power that would help make that change. All we are, are just voices and there is only so much voices could do and those voices ended up getting silenced because of people in positions of power.
You really threw Taiwan and Hong Kong in a list next to Palestine… liberals man.