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Thread #82355 Message #1508315
Posted By: Donuel
23-Jun-05 - 05:30 PM
Thread Name: BS: treating politics like fashion
Subject: BS: treating politics like fashion
Contrary to polls and radio talk shows and internet political arguments I believe the overall magority of people have no passion for politics and no Constitutional understanding of what it is about.
It is my observation that most people just treat politics with an expediency and convenience of what clothes they choose to wear to get whatever desired effect they want. Go along to get ahead kind of people.
My brother in law's wife is a perfect example. All her life she has had one sort of middle level corporate management job after another. Currently she gets more nods from the higher ups when she says I don't like Hillary Clinton at all. There was a time in which she did.
With obvious academic exceptions I think most political opinions in this forum are not from a deeply held personal passion but rather just a fashion that some people wear to show off for the crowd that butters their bread. If they sometimes sound passionate it is because they simply forgot their real motivation.
A catch phrase for these people could be forthcoming. I think sheeple is too harsh and lacks the exact attributes of folks like by brother in law's wife.