Do you concern yourself with politics? May I ask why or why not?
479716
Yes - I find the whole process fascinating.  I also believe that voting is an informed decision making process, so I keep up with local, state and national issues so I can make an informed decision.  How can a person complain about the state of things in their city, state and country if they are not well informed as to what is going on AND they don't vote!  If you don't exercise your right to vote, you shouldn't complain about the state of things.
704762
No. Politics are as necessary as the government they facilitate. \nUnderstand; as an American, I know only american politics intimately enough to answer...\nPolitics are ruined by the liars and creeps trying their hardest to get into office and betray your trust.
753338
I can't think of a topic since you say you're not interested in politics. Here's a website that might help you though:\nhttp://vos.ucsb.edu/
83859
ask this question in politics. :)
687408
Politics are for the very reason you exist. To protect (supposedly) those that cannot protect themselves.\n\nYou may think it does not affect you but it does, in every way shape and form.\n\nPoliticians make laws. So every law you follow, from the speed limit, to commerce, to an ordinance in your own town on men being able to wear shirts in public or not is ALL becuase of a politician that proposed legislation that was voted on and made into law.\n\nIt's ok that you are disconnected from the political spectrum. At least you admit it. For that you rule.\n\nThen there are those that THINK they know what they are talking about and truely don't.
315021
why are you worrying your self?
1136688
Yes, I did know this, and I do this. I check up on my "representatives" (not that they actually represent) and I let them know when I am not happy with them, what way I want them to vote on upcoming issues, and I make sure they are well aware that their job hangs on their choices.
472807
Yes, I catch your drift.\n\nI ask questions that interest me intellectually or emotionally, but that doesn't mean the question is necessarily ABOUT me. I just want to know what other people think. Some of our Y!Answer friends love giving advice so I suppose they assume it's all personal.
1066291
Although, I was born and brought up in Britain, I feel, increasingly,  that I am living amongst people who's attitudes and views I simply cannot share.\n\nYou refer to people, who, all too easily throw the word RACIST about. This childish name calling, of course, is designed to silence those who hold a differing view. It implies, that if you don't conform to the "right on " political agenda, your opinions are simply beneath contempt. Many people who behave like that simply do not understand that creating a climate of fear, in which people are afraid to discuss perfectly reasonable areas of concern or perhaps express an opinion, leads us toward totalitarianism.\n\nOf course, most people who behave like this are pursuing an ideological agenda, generally associated with left wing or liberal politics. Others, particularly younger people, may feel that it is chic to espouse what seems to be the fashionable view. It's safer that way, your less likely to look stupid and you don't have to think.\n\n I know that your primary concern is - why do people behave like this?\nIf you consider the influences that are operating over people today, particularly younger people, you will be less surprised. eg. We have a government that is radical, if not revolutionary, pursuing a feminist agenda. We have a media which is also doing its level best to indoctrinate its viewers into left wing and feminist politics. The educational system is doing an even better job, and has done so for many years, of indoctrinating students with its feminist and left of centre politics. I could go on and include, The legislature, The public sector, etc.\n\nI suspect that you are concerned about immigration. That subject, above all, invokes the word "Racist" It's that kind of response that makes me believe that I am not living amongst realists. Do you ever remember being asked by any political party - what your views on immigration are? Have you ever seen the subject  included in any of their manifestos. No! you have simply been presented with a Fait Accompli.\n\nWhat many people don't seem to understand, is, that the issue is not a personal one, I am sure, like you, that  I would get on perfectly well with most immigrants. But that is not the point. Managing a country is not personal: It has to be managed at the macro level in the long term interest of the country as a whole.\n\nIf you tried to put that point to Matthew  Wright of the "Wright Stuff". TV. programme. He would probably put the phone down on you. I have watched him do that sort of thing usually after sneering at the Daily Mail newspaper.\n\n We observe similar sneering on "Question Time" that other TV programme with a rather lefty bias.\n\nSorry, for banging on, but your question cannot be answered simplisticly, one has to try and describe  the circumstances which have given rise to the attitudes underlined by your question.
187821
No, but you might want to keep some of your opinions to yourself, and not utter everything you have ever thought about...\nThat's what I have been told...
230762
ask political questions -- name calling and illogical answers
519925
It is if you care about the b.s. politics of work, but, and stop me if I'm being presumptuous, you don't strike me as someone who'd be too wrapped up in office politics. \nIt's just a job after all ;)
62668
Can I ask you something? Who Cares?
105611
I haven't stopped caring. I care too much in fact. I feel powerless against the market forces that run our world. The United States is not a country as much as it is a corporation. Our politicians are (for the most part) primarily out to line their own pockets and don't represent the true interests of the people. I'll never stop caring, whether it's in this lifetime or any others. I just don't let it drain my energy the way I used to do.
759195
No. \n\nAnd just a comment...I can't wait until these elections are over. I'm tired of the meaningless political questions where people think that their opinion is the only correct one.
734788
kiss your what? I,m trying my best to keep my mind on politics...you make it hard.
788296
What I worry about more than the two political parties is the possibility that the whole system--all the parties, whether the two dominant ones or the several smaller ones--"don't get it" in the sense that they have become so wrapped up in their own agendas that they've lost track of the actual thoughts and fears and needs of the man in the street.\n\nWhat I worry about more than even that, however, is the apparent reality that the population as a whole seems to be more worried about their own personal peace, prosperity, privilege and power than they are about what is best for the country as a whole.\n\nI also worry about the possibility that a large number of individuals cast their votes based on labels that have but limited real content (Like Democrat and Republican: as the asker observed, there is considerable overlap), and ignore the voting records and behavior of those for whom they cast votes.