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Do any of you folks have any interest in IDEAS? Any interest in actual ISSUES? I don't mean an interest in the concept of issues -- I mean in the substance of issues themselves.
Reading the comments above just reinforces what the Internet has increasingly made clear: Many of you -- most, even -- engage with politics as a soap opera. You're all bound up in the personalities and stories. These people are all CHARACTERS to you. The campaigns are storylines. And you're infatuated with it all, breathlessly caught up in the latest twists, excited about where the plot will take us next.
None of it seems to be about actual policy. Yes, you reference ideology, but only in a contextual sense -- the way a "Sopranos" fan might reference the backdrop of personality traits that makes such-and-such character be such-and-such way. That's it.
You're ruining politics. You're ruining American governance. For God's sake, you're too caught up in PEOPLE. Try arguing about IDEAS and PREMISES for a while, and quit being so enraptured with the surface drama of all this stuff.
(I found this posted in a comment section)
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