Did your political opinions change over the years, if so why?

The hypocrisy and accumulated failures make it exhausting to try and have nuanced opinions. I'm personally not a huge fan of the extreme "everyone on the other side is a bad person with bad intentions" approach because I think it shifts the collective thought of the public away from good/bad leaders with good/bad ideas to a very basic survival instinct to vote for the "good guys" based on party with no consideration for individual traits.

It's a simple cycle of money picking the candidates and tribalism deciding the result of the vote. Creativity/curiosity/genuine competence don't matter at all because all they have to do is say the right lines for the people who agree with them while the laws are written by/for the people/institutions with money who picked the candidates in the first place.

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