I've seen intelligent and not very political people in science and medical fields make blanket statements about "Oh I wish they wouldn't make this a political issue. This should be common sense!" when it comes to something in their area of expertise. Of course due to the nature of left-wing media dominance of the narrative, these people also usually fail to see exactly who is making a particular issue political. They think there's some right-wing influence network pushing reactionary ideas instead of just normal people voicing their concerns. I try to explain that something being political or not has nothing to do with truth or the influence of dishonest actors. It's simply: "Do you think X?" "Well I disagree, and I'll only vote for politicians that agree with me."
So literally everything could be political. The problem here is really the influence of the state and that people see it as a means of expression, sometimes without realizing that's what they're doing. The more totalitarian the state becomes, the more people try to use it (or must use it) to change things, and politics enters normal areas of life that should be inherently apolitical.
There are reactionaries pushing their concerns, but they are so small and few in number that none of your normie friends know who they are.
Everything could be political, but hardly anything should be. And anyone telling you that everything is political is telling you they are a totalitarian. Typically an issue became political because a leftist ideolog was seeking to use political agitation to attack a cultural institution with state power.
I've seen intelligent and not very political people in science and medical fields make blanket statements about "Oh I wish they wouldn't make this a political issue. This should be common sense!" when it comes to something in their area of expertise. Of course due to the nature of left-wing media dominance of the narrative, these people also usually fail to see exactly who is making a particular issue political. They think there's some right-wing influence network pushing reactionary ideas instead of just normal people voicing their concerns. I try to explain that something being political or not has nothing to do with truth or the influence of dishonest actors. It's simply: "Do you think X?" "Well I disagree, and I'll only vote for politicians that agree with me."
So literally everything could be political. The problem here is really the influence of the state and that people see it as a means of expression, sometimes without realizing that's what they're doing. The more totalitarian the state becomes, the more people try to use it (or must use it) to change things, and politics enters normal areas of life that should be inherently apolitical.
There are reactionaries pushing their concerns, but they are so small and few in number that none of your normie friends know who they are.
Everything could be political, but hardly anything should be. And anyone telling you that everything is political is telling you they are a totalitarian. Typically an issue became political because a leftist ideolog was seeking to use political agitation to attack a cultural institution with state power.