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Perhaps I'm not reaching my target audience here in TFPolitics, but I just had a thought about my love-hate relationship to politics.

It seems to me that one major aspect of a government is to provide some kind of consistency for its constituents through its institution of policies, even if it is only in theory.

Politics, in this sense, is when people in power who have differing ideas compete over what exactly should be a consistent part of policy.

That being said, Emerson would point out that "a foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds," and I would tend to agree.

Now there are obviously a million reasons to be interested in politics ('even if you don't take an interest in politics, it will take an interest in you'), but I'm just wondering if most of the people who are interested in talking about politics all the time just aren't as bothered by the things that bother me. I participate and stay relatively well-informed but, frankly, politics feel bad and I'm often disinclined to enter this particular forum. I wish I could find a more eloquent way to say that.

Am I just giving a different name to the disillusionment with the state of world affairs that most others are feeling?

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