I’m struggling with people around me (in the US) being so politically disengaged and just apathetic towards very serious things.

I don’t want to be the stereotypical obnoxious commie who injects politics into everything, but at the same time, basically everything political and we have very different understandings of the world so its hard to just sit back and be like everyone else.

Everyone around me just doesn’t seem to care and I don’t know what to do. I’m getting involved with a party again soon once I get back on my feet but I don’t know how to approach people who are just chilling and galloping through, y’know?

Maybe this is a useless or dumb post but I’m just kind of lost

  • @TeezyZeezy@lemmygrad.mlOP
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    711 months ago

    So are you saying we should wait and prepare for the right moment instead of constantly trying to create engagement?

    • @suggsjackal@lemmygrad.ml
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      811 months ago

      At the individual level, as in how you interact with your friends and family, yes, absolutely wait. Something will happen to them personally where they feel betrayed by capitalism, or we could have another global capitalism failure like the handling of COVID-19.

      As a collective, absolutely not, we don’t have to wait to join parties and coordinate political actions in our communities. I hope that makes sense.

      Again, this is all the opinion of one comrade.