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kbutlertoday at 4:45 AM2 repliesview on HN

Wow, politics seems the opposite to me. It has the morbid fascination of a train wreck. You can't stop it, you know it's going badly, yet you can't look away.

Family and building things are much more positive sources of energy to me.


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rthrfrdtoday at 8:20 AM

That’s because you’ve become so accustomed to politics as tribalism and sports-like entertainment that you’ve completely forgotten why we even started the political systems we have today in the first place. Divestment of power, not accumulation. Serving others, not ourselves. You can still embody those things. But it’s better to admit to ourselves that we aren’t selfless enough to do that, than hide behind a learned helplessness.

rightbytetoday at 9:18 AM

From the inside it looks different and is noway near as hostile as media and especially the internets make it look like.