I feel like obsessing about politics ruined my life.

I think politics is like the weather, nothing we can control.

Also, all my political beliefs might be wrong, idk, many disagree with me, I have no idea really if I'm correct or if they are.

 

Politics is a rough territory to get into, and in today's political climate, its hard to find any glimpse of truth in any political ideology, especially the more radical ones.

I think that politics needs to be handled with a lot of caution and skepticism, and actually use reason to discuss it, the problem is that the opposite is occuring. Politics can make people really hostile and toxic cuz of disagreement, thats why I like educating myself about it, but not actually discuss it, unless it is with level headed people who can handle disagreement like mature people.

 

Ideologies blind us, they are unrealistical answers to the reality problems, who are a way more difficult to solve than with a "100% certain" response that a ideology teach. They disassociate us with the reality of the things and blocks us to the "Discovering of the Other" and the Tenderness. And inproving your life isn't a "right-wing thing" since the left people do this too xD. I recomend you to not participate of groups, especially these kind of groups, because are full of paranoic people, full of mental problems. Left and right are the same in the final, and you proved this in your experience. Great to see that you leaved this and became catholic (im too).

 

How about devote to neither and live as an indiviual. Why do you need to be part of or loyal to a group? You are a free individual.

I personally oppose both sides but I know they outnumber me so I accept that reality. At least i still maintain certain freedoms and am not forced to join either

 

Good u r aware of the damage of self righteous ideologies.
Only God is real.
And you don't need anything or anyone to connect with him/her.

 

fascism is far left, anarchy is far right. Common misconception taught in the public sector. Neo nazis don't really fit anywhere, they hate jews and often those who look different for no apparent reason but can line up with the left or right on the role of government.

 

Religion will ruin your life too. Keep an open mind and do it yourself. God's not doing what you are doing,you are doing what you are doing.

 

Politics is all anyone talks about anymore, and it's incredibly toxic.

 

the truth is above any ideology
adevărul este mai presus de orice ideologie
die Wahrheit steht über jeder Ideologie
egia edozein ideologiaren gainetik dago
la verdad esta por encima de cualquier ideologia
la vero estas super iu ajn ideologio
la vérité est au dessus de toute idéologie
η αλήθεια είναι πάνω απ 'όλα ιδεολογία
de waarheid is boven alle ideologie
otitọ ga ju gbogbo arojinle lọ
la verità è soprattutto ideologia
omni notione veritatis
gerçek her ideolojinin üzerindedir

 

Politics is mostly theater. It only represents real power for those in power.

If you're following politics, you're being a follower, not a leader. You're not leading your own life, changing what you can change. You're getting all your opinions force fed to you like a slave. Free men make their own opinions. This is especially true thanks to all the metapolitical content bubbles that exist nowadays, telling you what's right from vaccines to what you can or cannot eat.

You should only follow yourself. Let the rest follow by example.

 

Interesting perspective!

 

I can think of political movements in the past that I would have been proud to be a part of. I don't think that we are in a very good place now so I am reluctant to 'pick a side'. I'm not sure that left/right wing is sufficient to describe my (or anyone else's politics), and for this reason a two party state isn't going to reflect any of the nuanced political beliefs or debates of the country.

But saying things like 'fascism is left wing' is a bit silly. It's right wing virtually by definition. Anarchism is far left, did you mean libertarianism? Although there are leftwing (and even Marxist) forms of libertarianism too, at least historically.

 

I drove myself mad thinking about politics. Here in the UK we had a few years in a row that we had major political discussion. First in Scotland we had an independence referendum then we had an election then another referendum about the EU this time and that led to further elections. I was quite passionate about all of these and in 2015 I ended up in hospital due to the stress of all the politics. I've been getting better but the arguments are still going

 

While obviously not true in every case, there's definitely some truth to this. Go out there and do good things instead of obsessing over politics. Good message!