ad nauseam

If you're going to be political, be fucking political.

I'm sick of supposed activists stealing space from people who actually care. There is a social climate that exists primarily in the collegiate world, though it bleeds into the peripherals. It is a climate of activism, the idea that apathy should be an anathema, and that if you're not active, you are somehow morally bankrupt. A lot of people buy into this bullshit, and so instead of actually caring, they simply make the pretense. You know this because when pressed they generally have little more than a cursory understanding of any issues.

And for me that is the selling point. How can you truly care about something if you know little or nothing about it? How do you know you're correct, if you haven't done any research to support your opinions?

You might think that it goes without saying that every genuine political opinion, right or left, should be considered based on its individual merit, and not vilified or made an epithet.

I make this rant about three or four times a year, depending on the number of political-posers I encounter. I live with one right now, and so it crops up more often.