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Has anyone else noticed how boring politics has become? I don’t mean to imply that nothing is happening—I mean, we had a Speaker of the House fired for the first time in American history a couple of months ago—but it all seems so… dull.
If everything was hunky-dory, it would be fine for politics to be boring. Indeed, it would be great—we want to live in a world where the issues that face us are so miniscule, we can elect boring people to administer boring, predictable law and order.
But the opposite is the case. Everything sucks. Our government is wildly oppressive. Our institutions can’t pave the roads adequately, much less govern the country. People aren’t allowed to say anything reasonable in public without losing their jobs. Inflation is through the roof. Wages are stagnant. China owns everything. Our leaders want to drag us into wars in Eastern Europe and the Middle East that involve ancient clans battling over ancient grievances. Peaceful protestors—actual ones, not progressives robbing their local Wendy’s—are in federal prison without trial because they were invited to walk through the Capitol Building.
In spite of all of that, politics is boring. I think I know why.
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The Portly Politico 
Politics is boring in the UK. 2 parties at the top of the pile for over a century and both believe in the same things. It’s like going into the butchers for a rump steak and finding he only has 2 pieces of slightly varied offal for sale.
I’m usually pretty vocal at election times but next year, I’ll put my feet up and switch off.
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Here, here, my friend. I’ve always been one to advocate going out to the ballot box. Now, outside of local and maybe State elections, it might not really matter. I’m increasingly of the mind that we should probably all sit out an election or two. Maybe if things get _really_ bad, we’ll see a true awakening, one that can’t be drugged back into listless slumber via the application of some rhetorical bromides.
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