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[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's what it always was. Many people view. "Politics" as simply being anything they don't like or disagree with.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Or anything that's not the status quo.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

This is common, and it's why a lot of conservatives describe themselves as "not political" while acting and voting conservative. From their perspective it's just all these annoying people stirring things up and demanding change to a perfectly good situation who are the political ones.

In general, when someone says "I'm not political," I hear "I'm unreflectively conservative."