'apolitical' masses

  • nobody is outside of politics
  • apolitical as ignorant
    • by choice, or
    • by lack of access to education, or
    • by circumstance preventing mental space/engagement/etc
  • apolitical as undecided
    • not deciding on a political party isn’t the same as being undecided on political factors in general
    • you enact your values every day, be the change
    • the personal is political
    • humans are a social species and politics is concerned with social arrangements
    • your life is affected by others’ politics
    • your material situation is dictated strongly by economic currents
  • apolitical as centrist
    • centrism favours already dominant forces
    • there are many cases in which not supporting the oppressed or even the underdog is either implicit or very tangible support for the oppressor
  • apolitical as privileged
    • those with marginalised identities are politicised by their very existence
    • some people are afforded ‘opting out’ as a choice and others aren’t
    • often quite literally, as in, you can’t opt out of being killed for others’ politics
  • apolitical as objective