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most people don't care about any of that. they are more focused on the local sports team, their schedule at work, their kids sports games and a million other things.
i mean you can grandstand all you want about it... but it won't ever change those people's minds. they have other shit to worry about that federal politics, which is largely background noise to them.
your error is thinking other people think about politics like you do. they don't. they don't think about it at all.
The majority of Germans in the late 1930's weren't members of the Nazi party either. The majority of Germans in fact claimed being either unaware or opposed to what the Nazi regime did. Did the tell the truth? I'm inclined to believe so. Does being unaware/laying low absolve them of any and all crimes committed by the Nazi government? That's more of an open question.
Actively voting for a government that commits crimes because you don't care sufficiently about politics does not absolve you of responsibility for those crimes. Once you actively enable a fascist government you are complicit in the crimes it commits.
the majority of germans are not responsible for the holocaust. the nazis are.
this take is so absurd. according to this type of logic i'm personally responsible for slavery or something. I'm not. that was 200 years before I existed. the holocost was 50 years before existed.
Nowhere did I state that anyone is guilty by association simply by existing. I said anyone that actively enables a fascist government is complicit, and that laying low, turning a blind eye, or otherwise passively accepting that government doesn't completely absolve you.
It's absurd to paint someone with crimes committed before they were born, but it's even more absurd that you were able to read that out of the comment you replied to.
Applying the same logic to slavery leads you to the conclusion that anyone who actively worked to enable slavery is complicit, and that anyone who silently accepted it is also partially accountable. There is literally nothing in my previous comment that places blame on people either too young, old or incapacitated to have real agency. Even less so unborn people or people resisting a fascist government, either loudly and publicly or silently in private.
Apparently showing the tiniest speck of empathy is grandstanding now.
and thinking anyone who doesn't agree with you political lacks empathy is the height if ignorance and arrogance.
the question is who the empathy is for. you direct yours to certain groups and not others.
Way to put words in my mouth, I didn't say any of that. My point was that there are people who can't ignore politics because they're being targeted by this administration. For some reason you've decided to focus on the people with the privilege to ignore all the atrocities committed day in and day out. Seems like some messed up priorities to me.
So why should your group not be targeted? Why should it be some other group that gets attacked and scapegoated for the ills of society? Because no matter your ideology, you are blaming someone, and they very much do not want to be blamed or attacked.
Just replace "your group" with the Jews during the Holocaust and you can hopefully hear what a stupid argument you're making. Let's all stop blaming and attacking the fascists haha