Anti-political just means pro-status-quo. You can afford to be anti-political because the current state of affairs is convenient for you.
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Maybe I need to be more precise: neither party of the political establishment is remotely palatable to me. I rarely see anyone who is running who seems interested in changing that, and even if they were, most people I know are not going to support anyone truly anti-establishment.
The current state of affairs is definitely NOT convenient for me. But I’ve become jaded, and I do not believe that the current gov of the USA, nor attempting to change the current gov of the USA, is a good use of my time.
I’m kinda tired of this facade that you must support a party. I just don’t think it does anything productive, and just makes me exhausted. Maybe I am wrong, and lord knows I would be very happy to be wrong. Until then, I will chug along on a small corner of things that I can actually improve.
I didn't say that you must support a party -- not being from the US myself, I hear pretty awful things about them all the time. But most political causes are not party politics (you'll never hear this from the parties, of course).
As an example, I have never read about EA support for worker unionization, which would be a pretty effective way of increasing worker access to food, shelter and healthcare. It's not even a new, unproven idea! Workers in the US were much more unionized in the past, with a measurable QoL impact. However, since this an issue that can't be solved with monetary donations, plus it requires rocking the political boat, EA advocates are functionally blind to it. These are the types of things I think about when being "anti-politics" is mentioned as a feature.
Ahh gotcha - boy, I wish we had different words for “centralized insane governmental politics” and “politics as in affairs of the city” haha
Yeah sadly it's pretty common (not only in the US) to talk about "politics" and people instantly think you mean "party politics".